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Old 11-10-2009, 10:18 PM   #106
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Just downloaded it, thanks for the link!

Is there a limit to how many PCs you can have your account on? I didn't see any info on that on the Amazon site.
Some publishers set a limit. Often it's a maximum of 4 units.
I already had iPhone an iPod touch plus Kindle 2 and Kindle DX.
So I can't download about 1/3 of my books.
But it's stated in each book's description and obviously isn't Amazon's "fault".
Still annoying though...
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Old 11-10-2009, 10:33 PM   #107
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Just an idle thought, but I wonder if there's any way to get the Kindle PID the PC app is using.
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Old 11-10-2009, 10:49 PM   #108
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No time to read all 8 pages of this thread, just a short announcement:

Donnageddon approves of this development. He likes the Kindle for PC option.

That is all.
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Old 11-10-2009, 10:51 PM   #109
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So does the send gift certificate from elsewhere to new US account deal work with Kindle For PC - anyone tried that?
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Old 11-11-2009, 12:10 AM   #110
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works for me. But without the PC app's Kindle ID we would have to actually read on the PC and can't transfer the books to our other devices. Let us give the hackers a few days.
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Old 11-11-2009, 01:20 AM   #111
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If that is indeed the file with the PID in it, it looks like it is going to be a little tougher to get the pid as opposed to the Ipod Touch or the kindle
D'oh!
I did not though about that. You need the pid to de-drm.... Though getting it would be as easy as for the mobi pc-reader.
So much for buying books from amazon then. No way i read on pc !

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Is there anyway (if you have Kindle for PC) to remove the DRM from the Kindle ebooks? I've seen some ebooks that I'd like to have but want to read them on my CyBook.
Mme too. I'm trying to find amazon's e-mail to tell them that...



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I learned about kindle for pc and thought "yeah, i'll be able to get books from amazon". But I forgot something there.... My reader, a cybook opus, won't read your format. And drm prevent me from converting it to ePub it can read.
Buying a kindle is not an option, i already own a reader. And as europeans publishers uses ePub, i need ePub support.
Any hopes for some good old drm-free epub on amazon ? Or, at worse, with adobe drm my reader can read ? Or drm free mobi that could be converted into something readable ?
That's what i wrote, maybe, if lots of us do that, amazon will come to their sense about selling books for other e-readers...
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Old 11-11-2009, 01:48 AM   #112
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You EU folks should really get on your government on this. It's ridiculous you pay so much for electronic content.
Why would you think it is ridiculous? They have to charge all kind of taxes in Europe that we don't pay in the US in order to provide the government services that we don't have. That stuff really isn't free. You have to pay for it one way or another.
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Old 11-11-2009, 02:09 AM   #113
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Doggies, here is the site. The info seems perfectly clear. You do NOT need a Kindle, only a laptop. You can buy Kindle books and read them on your laptop.
Hey, you can use it on any PC, not only a laptop!

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I think you pretty much summarized the situation. The only way to get around it at this point is to own a kindle or an iphone.
Or a portable device, with an XP, Win7 or Vista OS on it. Now we need an app for WinMobile....

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I assume that if you are able to download and register for a Barnes and Noble account anyone could read BN books with the software installed. I have not purchased any books from BN just downloaded their free books.
As long as you live in the US...

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Yes, anyone can download the eReader software from B&N, buy books through it with a process very similar to Amazon's 1-click, and read them on a PC. I've been doing it for months now. No more being tied to one store, which I think is excellent! *rejoicing*.
Again, as long as you live in the US. While the reading app is still very basic, at least everybody has the opportunity to buy now from Amazon.
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Old 11-11-2009, 04:24 AM   #114
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I assume that if you are able to download and register for a Barnes and Noble account anyone could read BN books with the software installed. I have not purchased any books from BN just downloaded their free books.

The BN software seems much more polished then the new Kindle app. You have the ability to read the books in one page mode or in two page mode much like an actual book. Another feature I like is the ability to auto scroll the text. You can just sit and watch the screen as the text scrolls down the screen. This only works in one page view.
More importantly BN is still using the age-old eReader password "DRM" which means their files will work on a few other possible devices than advertised by that virtue alone.
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Old 11-11-2009, 04:49 AM   #115
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You do NOT need a Kindle, only a laptop. You can buy Kindle books and read them on your laptop.
Sounds interesting. So, we can buy cheap kindle ebooks and read them on Sony Readers in the UK? (after disinfection of course)
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Sounds interesting. So, we can buy cheap kindle ebooks and read them on Sony Readers in the UK? (after disinfection of course)
Quick as someone 1) figures out how to get the necessary info for the pc-delivered files to liberate them and 2) You replace "UK" with "US" where the 2 dollar, pound, whatever VAT nonsense doesn't come into play... yea sure
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I knew it! I knew it would arrive between monday and wednesday as I can't check my email until wednesday due to a server move of my mail server...

Awesome that you no longer need a Kindle to buy Kindle books.
But only to read them on your PC, or at least I can't see anyway to transfer them to my reader. This is of very little interest to me.

Edit: Silly me, as someone pointed out earlier the file is in a new folder off My Documents>My Kindle content

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Quick as someone 1) figures out how to get the necessary info for the pc-delivered files to liberate them and 2) You replace "UK" with "US" where the 2 dollar, pound, whatever VAT nonsense doesn't come into play... yea sure
Ah. 1. is a bit of a problem.
Well, I am sure it is a matter of time before someone finds the proper antivirus.
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But only to read them on your PC, or at least I can't see anyway to transfer them to my reader. This is of very little interest to me.

Regards, Alex
Clearly Amazon is not about supporting an open eco-system with its ebook sales. However, for what it's worth at least it opens options. I, for example, have been considering picking up a slate-style windows based tablet PC that is lightweight and relatively inexpensive for reading PDF's more comfortably. This would of course work on that device as well...

And though I do generally free my kindle downloads from DRM, I also like the whispersync functionality. So if I already had that tablet, I would definitely be using this app. As it stands, it might be useful to let me sell off my K2 if it becomes a vector for drm removal
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But only to read them on your PC, or at least I can't see anyway to transfer them to my reader. This is of very little interest to me.

Regards, Alex
See Astra for my response

Besides, there are a few books I'd rather read on my pc than not read at all. And what And zacheryjensen mentions also works (I'm not prejudiced against LCD), and finally, there's always a possibility of OCR'ing (as last resort!).
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