And it's not like you can typically "upgrade" your book to work on a different device for money, you would simply have to buy the same book multiple times to do it the "official" way. But it doesn't tend to work if they are books that you have paid Amazon or Apple for the privilege of owning, due to the protection code they put in, known in geekery as "DRM". ![]() Now the good news is it's easy enough (still a faff) to convert between book formats using a free program called Calibre. It's downright rude, especially the iBooks one. ![]() This feels naughty as one of the selling points of such things is that they take up no physical storage space, you always have them at hand no matter what device you have and so on. ![]() But the sad thing is that one cannot read a book purchased as an iBook on a Kindle, and you can't read a Kindle on anything that doesn't have a Kindle app installed. I guess there are probably the, or amongst, the top most popular formats. The ones I tend to have are either Kindle books ("azw" files, a form of "MOBI" files) or iBooks (epub files I think?). This one is mainly a place for me to record how one actually does accomplish the title task for future reference, but who know, it might be useful to someone else too.įirstly, DRM? eBooks? Ethics? Well, it so happens that eBooks come in many different formats, and not all devices can read all books.
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