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babaca ([personal profile] babaca) wrote in [community profile] ebooks2009-11-11 10:54 am

quick question

Has anyone downloaded the Kindle for PC software? I guess my real question is will one be able to take the kindle formatted files and convert them in Calibre to whatever format you want to use?
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[personal profile] elf 2009-11-12 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'm planning on getting it tomorrow or Friday.

I expect that books downloaded with it will mostly be DRM'd, and will need the Python scripts to un-DRM them before they can be Calibre'd. However, the ones that aren't DRM'd should just be .prc/.mobi ebooks with the Kindle extension (.azw), and those should go into Calibre nicely.

Topaz books are currently uncrackable, although that might change with a PC-based reading program. (At the very least, I'm sure someone will figure out how to screencap & convert them as images.)