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Re:Why I won’t touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole. by kqr2 on Friday February 13, 2009 @04:52PM (#480498)
Can you please cite the source for this? I have not read that the AZW format has been broken. People, however, have figured out how to read mobipocket protected formats on the kindle. That's a big difference.

A hacked AZW format would allow me to convert it to non-DRM format and even share it with other kindles.

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Re:Why I won’t touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole. by unalone on Friday February 13, 2009 @05:15PM (#480534)
If you open an AZW it's essentially modified HTML. I don't know if a converter is public or not - I frankly don't mind DRM very much - but getting information out of AZW and into other formats isn't particularly difficult if you really care to.
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