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Does anyone know if DAW e-books (Penguin group) are DRM free or not. There are a couple of books I want but no Kindle editions are on offer on Amazon. DAW sell a digital e-pub version direct from their site which I can convert to mobi for my Kindle reader, but only if it is DRM free. I don't have a reader for e-pub files, so if I buy the books and then discover they are cursed with DRM, I've wasted my money.

Date: Aug. 21st, 2012 01:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
Do you have an iPod Touch or iPhone? If so you can read epub files with Stanza. That's what I use on my iPod to read books from Project Gutenberg or Book View Cafe.

Date: Aug. 22nd, 2012 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdsedge.livejournal.com
I do have an ipod touch but the Kindle is so much kinder on my eyes. I can enlarge type to a comfortable level. If I'm reading for pleasure I don't want to either sit at my desk or struggle with tiny type on a small screen.

Date: Aug. 25th, 2012 02:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
I have the font quite large on my iPod, approximately 14 point if it were on the computer screen. You would think that you'd want the iPod in landscape orientation to get the longest line length, but the trick is to hold vertically and read a narrow column of 5 or 6 words in width. You do have to flip the page a lot and my thumb is almost constantly moving, but I really like reading that way.

Date: Aug. 22nd, 2012 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdsedge.livejournal.com
Book View Cafe does offer Kindle format. I just bought Sherwood Smith's new silver-fork Regency romance from them.

Date: Aug. 25th, 2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
Right. They must have expanded their range of formats because I'm sure that they only had epub at first. Or perhaps I'm not very observant. :)

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