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I guess that given its android I would not be limited to kindle books (and DRM free books) but could buy/rent books from other sources.

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With Calibre you can put almost anything on your Kindle, which is nice.

Only if the DRM format is supported by plugins.

If you have an ebook in mobi or epub or azw3 format that isn't DRM protected, Calibre has the ability to convert it to whatever Kindles like out of the box.

If you have DRM encumbered files obviously you're going to need to do something else, first, but why did you buy a book with DRM? Seems unwise to begin with lol

Can you imagine buying a dead tree book and have the publisher come up and say "no no no, you can't sell that when you're done!"

DRM'd ebooks. What a world.

Agree. Also the fact that DRM'ed ebooks from Kindle can only be read on Kindle devices or apps - you can't even use another device like Kobo or another reader.

Libary books. My (I am not in the US) local library lend out ebooks, they are obviously DRM protected. You can read them on the web or in the iOS/Android apps, so I can't read them on my kindle, on this device I would be able to as I could use the android app.

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