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Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks
Unhooking from Amazon ebooks
When I read that it was relatively easy to jailbreak all the Kindle models I used this as my opportunity to move to buying epub books and hopefully more of that money goes to the authors (in an ideal world…). The jailbreak process adds a "book" (app) called KUAL which is the doorway to the custom e-reader - specifically I installed KOReader(though I've no idea if there's other readers available! The book comes in a .ascm format - a pointer file that is serviced by Adobe Digital Editions which only then gives you a DRM encoded epub (or PDF).
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