Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free?

Re:Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-... by latortuga on Saturday May 09, 2009 @02:10PM (#601197)

That's just simply not true - Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) begs to differ.

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Re:Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-... by tptacek on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:32PM (#601392)

Let me help you figure this out:

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The Project Gutenberg "Top 5":

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) by J. Arthur Thomson (531)

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (453)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (324)

Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (303)

Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (270)

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The Kindle "Top 5"

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin

First Family by David Baldacci

The 8th Confession by James Patterson

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9) by Charlaine Harris

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Re:Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-... by jonknee on Saturday May 09, 2009 @02:14PM (#601200)

Amazon's offerings dwarf Project Gutenberg to a degree that it's not even worth discussing. The iPod wouldn't have gone anywhere if it could only play out of copyright music. Sure, there are a few dorks out there that would go for it but the vast majority of the public has no interest.

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