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Originally Posted by rdg_lad
I am under the impression Kindle will only support those e-books which are purchased from Amazon.com. Is that true?
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No, it's not true. The only thing restricted to Amazon is the DRM system.
Non-DRM books in any of the formats the Kindle supports (mobi, pdf, HTML, text, a few others, IIRC) can be read from any source, and most other non-DRMed formats can be easily converted to one of the supported formats by tools like Calibre.
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DRMed content from other stores besides Amazon would require stripping the DRM first and then converting.
While the Kindle can read PDFs, I don't think I'd enjoy reading many PDFs on my Kindle.
For text based PDFs, I think the Sony readers probably offer the best experience, though I really don't think any current 6-inch eink reader is going to be that great for PDF, especially graphically-rich ones.