csonni

Good to know. Thanks.

greensuperman32

I personally only use the kindle app for book reading, I like it even better than iBooks. I also have a kindle for reading on the bus and both sync up to the last page seamlessly.

latitude50

You have already got most of what you want regarding your question but I'll jump in and hopefully not repeat too much.

Amazon dot com has digital content and Amazon dot ca does not.
Amazon dot com is my favourite store on earth (except for Costco of course, everybody likes Costco) while Amazon dot ca is slow to get up to speed. Don't know why.

If you sign in to your account on dot com you will see a whole digital section where you can manage your Kindle purchases, library, cloud, etc. and synch your Kindle to all your reader apps or devices. The Canadian site section on digital content is not there. (hopefully sometime) So, yes, shop on Amazon dot com and they will let you know if anything can't be purchased by us.

Most Amazon book formats are MOBI. I think the Kindle Fire is or is going to use a different file format but regardless, a free download of Calibre will take care of any file format change you can conceive of.

Calibre is easy and fun to use plus it's free. The developer updates it at least once a week so I donated twenty bucks for it anyway. The software is that good.

Bottom line: Get a Kindle MOBI book file and you can convert it to read on anything with any reader app.

P.S. to this: You can also get a kindle email address like csonni@kindle.com (just an example).

If for example you gave me this address to your kindle and ALSO authorized me to send you books in the "Manage Your Digital Content" I told you about, you could be sitting on the beach in Hawaii and I could email you a book, article, or whatever and you could download it and read it and convert it to whatever you want.

<whew>

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(( p g ))

If the ebook is bought on Amazon, it has DRM enabled, and so you will need the Kindle app to open it. It's not a bad app for reading, actually. I would choose it over iBooks for how it handles highlighting. But I still prefer the flexibility of the ePub format that iBooks uses. Unlike Kindle, it doesn't make a distinction between DRM and non-DRM for effortlessly adding titles to the app.

latitude50

Yes, you are right (( p g )). The last book I bought is a .azw format that Calibre can't work with due to the DRM lock you refer to.
I read the book on my kindle and then downloaded it to my computer to open on my Kindle application there and it won't do that either.
I had no trouble with the previous Kindle .mobi files I have.

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