[ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Barry Drake]

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.

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