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Re:All O'Reilly Ebooks 50% off today by flurdy on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:32AM (#7704675)
Exactly. I don't buy ebooks from Amazon as they only offer Kindle books, whilst I want the epub version.

DRM free and available in dropbox so can be read on my laptop, ipad and android phone at any time is key.

Also feels good to pay the publisher directly and not fund Amazons tax dodging.

I do though have way too many ebooks from O'Reilly and Prag Prog :)

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Re:All O'Reilly Ebooks 50% off today by Infinitesimus on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:43AM (#7704746)
Doesn't Calibre let you convert from Kindle books to epub?
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Re:All O'Reilly Ebooks 50% off today by thoth on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:53AM (#7704818)
Yes, but the fonts, layouts, tables, diagrams, etc don't translate that well... sometimes OK, sometimes really bad.

I'd rather get a epub directly and save conversions for books that aren't in epub format at all, like fiction/non-fiction kindle format. Text-only or mostly text conversions (e.g. mobi to epub) work much better.

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