OK, this is all scaring me a bit. I've already removed DRM from all my purchased Palm eReader books and converted them to ePub but now I want to buy new stuff and there's no escaping the fact that the
Kindle Store has way more content than iBooks. I want to keep my entire library in the same reader so I now want to but a test book from the kindle store and convert that to ePub as I expect that this will then become my normal method of buying ebooks.
The test book I plan to buy is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birdsong/dp/B0031RS68M/. Am I fairly safe in assuming that this (and other mainstream contemporary fiction from big publishers) is likely to be in the basic AZW format? If so then am I in the right thread as far as stripping the DRM is concerned? Is atourgates' 2nd Sep 2010 post a fair summary of the current best practice?
Has anyone got the procedure working without needing to roll back the K4PC version or is this still a necessary step? Even better, is there some tool chain that makes it possible to strip the DRM without having
K4PC installed or is this really the only way to get around Amazon's "obfustication of the PID" issue?
This all looks way more complicated and scary than my experiences with converting my
B&N/eReader books but the prize (access to the Kindle content) is far greater so I guess that I need to climb this mountain.
- Julian