I have purchased some
Kindle ebooks from
Amazon, and removed the DRM so that I can read them on my
Sony ebook reader. I used
Calibre to do the conversion to Epub. I would like to share them with some of my friends, but I am well aware that as soon as I give them to anyone else, what happens to them after that is out of my control. If someone down the line posts them to a newsgroup or a torrent site, could there be any hidden metainfo within the file that would allow Amazon to identify the original purchaser of the ebook (me)? I have heard that Calibre strips all metadata when it converts books, but I would like to be sure.