Is it possible to convert Barnes and Noble eBooks into Kindle format?
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at
8:43 am
I have a second generation Kindle. Can I buy Barnes and Noble eBooks and convert them, or do they absolutely have to be Amazon?
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I own the Kindle 2 too. Unfortunately we are unable to read Barnes and Noble ebooks. Actually, all ebook readers protect themselves so their ebooks can only be read on specific ebook reader (just like Kindle books can only be read on the Kindle device).
Just in case you don’t know, there are some site like this one which gives over 20,000 free ebooks readable on our Kindle:
http://manybooks.net/
And we can get some books from Amazon for free too:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26node%3D154606011%26redirect%3Dtrue%26p%255F36%3D0-0&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/is-kindle-2-worth-the-price
Of course, there are quite a lot of websites selling ebooks in PDF format and we can read them on the Kindle.
Hope it helps
You can’t convert BN ebooks to any format unless you crack the DRM, and distributing programs to crack DRM is illegal. (Which doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but it means they’re not freely shared; you have to search for them.)
After removing the DRM, you’ll need to convert the file into PRC (Mobi) format for the Kindle; there are several free programs that do ebook file conversion. Mobipocket.com has a good one for that, but you’d need to start with a non-DRM’d eReader file.