All the Applemarks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they’ve bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you’ve bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don’t tell Devin!) Those books are only “supposed” to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.
It’s really not too hard. All you need is the book you want to read on your iPad, unswindle, mobiledrm, and Stanza, which is a program that reads ePub files. It runs on the iPhone and iPod touch—presumably one day it will run on the iPad. If not, well, sorry for wasting your time.
OK!
1. Buy your book. I recommend “The Death of WCW” by Bryan Alvarez.
2. Download the required software. This includes unswindle, mobiledrm, and maybe the Kindle reader for Windows.
3. Put everything in the same directory, then run unswindle. The Kindle DRM is now gone~!
4. Fire up Stanza, then convert and read away~!
That’s it. Enjoy being able to read Kindle books on your iPhone (and maybe iPad one day).
Please be aware that Amazon will likely be updating the DRM it uses pretty much every hour on the hour, so don’t get mad when this method suddenly stops working. It’s a cat-and-mouse game because publishers don’t know hot to get on with each other or release books in open standards.
UPDATE – Amazon also reminds us that, as of this writing, you should be able to download the Kindle software onto your iPad, thereby bypassing these steps.
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