Can I purchase ebooks from the Kobo store and put them on my Kindle?

Question

I would like to buy some ebooks from the borders Kobo store, and then put them on my new kindle. Can this be done? If so, let me know how! thanks ;)

Answer 1

Most for-purchase books are protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems that are particular to the ereader, so, no, you can't count on being able to buy Borders ebooks for your Kindle, or Amazon ebooks for your Kobo. There are lots of places, however, which offer free, legal ebooks that will work on most ereaders. Sometimes it's a single format that most support (EPUB, TXT, PDF, etc); sometimes multiple ebook formats are listed per book.



The 13 sites listed here (Patricia Clark Memorial Library, ManyBooks, Project Gutenberg, Smashwords, Feedbooks, Baen, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google ebookstore, Internet Archive, Open Library, Sony Reader Store, and Kobo eBooks) have legal, free ebook downloads:



http://www.howtodecide.com/ebook-download/



Also, if you master a good conversion tool such as Calibre,



http://calibre-ebook.com/



you'll gain access to more formats than just your ereader's native ebook file formats. Calibre will not, however, overcome DRM of protected for-purchase books.

Answer 2

1. Yes. 2. Yes, a Kindle. 2a. I do prefer reading eBooks. I like being able to adjust the fonts and spacing to suit me. Sometimes real books have awful small print. 3. No, eBooks do not diminish the experience. 4. No, I read about the same amount of books. I've always been a voracious reader. Now I just read them as eBooks instead. 5. I admit, I do like going to a bookshop to browse around, but then again, there are many books in niche genres that are much more available as eBooks, like zombie fiction. 6. The only real books I purchase are the occasional out of print book that is available used, but is not an eBook. You didn't really ask why I bought my eReader. It's because I kept having to get rid of books. Every couple of years, I'd have accumulated another 70 or 80 books, and then I'd need to sort thru them and get rid of a bunch. Now I don't have to. I've had my eReader for 3 years now, and I've never gotten rid of a book since. And even if I lose or break my eReader, the books are still mine in my Amazon account. I can read them on the computer, or by purchasing a new eReader or even on a smart phone.

Answer 3

Not without some effort, if at all. If it's a PDF the Kindle can read it.. any other format would have to be converted and because of copy protection, that may not be an option.