08-03-2014, 11:07 PM | #1 |
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iPad Kindle App book extraction?
I have a jailbroken iPad on iOS 7.1.2 and although I do like and appreciate the often great prices Amazon has on books, I prefer reading books on the Marvin app. Even if this requires using a PC, could someone assist me on a way to access legally purchased books from Amazon, that was downloaded to the Kindle App, i.e. extra those books, use Calibre to convert them to epub and sync using iTunes to get those books onto the Marvin app?
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08-03-2014, 11:20 PM | #2 |
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The legality of doing this depends on who you ask. The publishers think it is horribly illegal since you don't have to pay them for the same book twice -- others think it is legal according to the Fair Use Doctrine. Last edited by eschwartz; 08-03-2014 at 11:24 PM. |
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08-04-2014, 07:19 AM | #3 |
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Given that some publishers don't even bother putting DRM on ebooks, you paint with a rather broad brush there. Sometimes it's the author who is concerned with piracy, other times it's the publishers concerned with piracy. I rather doubt that more than a handful of individuals actual view DRM as a tool to make you buy the same book multiple times.
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08-04-2014, 09:46 AM | #5 |
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Also this gives further proof to my running theory that you have no sense of humor.
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08-04-2014, 01:33 PM | #6 |
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08-04-2014, 08:25 PM | #7 |
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The only publisher I have a bias towards is Baen books. I'm a lot more interested in specific authors than publishers. I have a pretty good sense of humor, but I'm pretty sure that asserting that a group of people are malicious isn't generally considered humor. Well, maybe if it's a lawyer joke.
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