Re: [iPad] eBook readers

 

I've used Calibre to convert Kindle books (.mobi, .azw, .azw3) format to .epub and all worked fine on my Nook.

Curby
Del City, OK


From: David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] eBook readers

 
On 2/18/2013 8:18 PM, __A_YAHOO_USER__ wrote:
> I have a number of ebooks from different sources such as B & N,
> Google, iTunes, etc. In my hands, it would seem on the iPad that each
> seller needs its own specific ebook reader app for its ebook
> purchases and that ebooks purchased from one seller cannot be read
> using another seller's app. Is this true? Is there any way(s) for an
> ebook purchased from one seller to be read on another seller's app?
> In particular, I am interested in placing all my ebooks on iBook or
> at least one reader app instead of having them scattered all over the
> place on different reader apps which is messy and disorganized. Is
> there a universal ebook reader app that can accept all ebooks
> irrespective of supplier? I can imagine this may be a particular
> problem with ebooks borrowed from public libraries also.
>

Someday there may be a single ebook reader app that reads all the
different proprietary formats, but that day isn't today.

There are ways to strip DRM from some of the proprietary formats and
then using a utility such as Calibre you can convert non-DRM ebooks
between formats so you can end up with them all in the same reader. But
it's not easy to strip DRM from some of the formats, and it is
potentially illegal (the courts seem to have decided both ways in
different cases, so there's no clearcut legal precedent to bypass the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act parts that make it illegal to remove
copy protection, at least from what I've read. I'll be happy to learn
otherwise.

I tried to convert Kindle books to ePub, but I could never get the steps
I found online to work right so I gave up.

Supposedly all ePub works can be read by the same reader, even with DRM,
so if you have some from different sources you should be able to read
them all in the same reader. "Should" being the operative word.

So until the day that a company actually licenses the technology from
the different ebook vendors and combines them all into a single reader
app (that would likely cost some money to buy that app), we're stuck
with multiple reader apps and trying to remember which book we purchased
in which format.

--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com


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