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I've recently bought a Kobo, and had great success removing the DRM from my Kindle library, then loading all my books there onto my Kobo. Just food for thought that such a thing is possible
I don't know, there are a couple of books that have Adobe DRM on them at every bookstore where I found the book.
Are you saying, it's possible to get Amazon books onto a non-Kindle device? That's actually pretty much the only bookstore where I never looked at before.
That's basically my attitude. As usual, piracy is a service problem.
When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there's no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.