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i borrow from overdrive. i wrote that. i pirate stuff not on overdrive because buying from amazon ties me to their devices and they give me a "license" to read on their devices only. i want mp3 of ebooks. i pay for an ebook and get a epub file. is that too hard?

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> buying from amazon ties me to their devices and they give me a "license" to read on their devices only

This isn't strictly true since you can also read Amazon ebooks on 3rd party android devices that have the Kindle application installed.

It's true in the more general sense that the Amazon ebooks have DRM that limit interoperability.

So don't use Amazon. ebooks.com sells epub files. Was that too hard to find?

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