How did the one from Barnes and Noble work? Did you have to extract it from a horrible proprietary e-reader, or was that just available for you to convert?
On 28 November 2012 10:13, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote: > >> If you can buy EPUB books, and then have access to the actual file, it's >> pretty trivial to then convert that to the Kindle format. However the >> problem I've had is even getting to the actual file. >> > > I don't seem to have the problem you have. I use Calibre with the un-DRM > plugin so if I buy books from Amazon they are converted automatically to > mobi and I back them up. I've bought thousands of good books on DVDs from > e-bay sellers and have even bought a book from Barnes and Noble and > un-DRM'd it and converted it to mobi ... so I'm really no seeing the > problem. There seems to be a hack available to make any format work OK. > Oh - I never have the Kindle wi-fi turned on - if I buy a book I download > the file to my desktop .... > > Regards, Barry. > > -- > Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
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