How to read EPUB ebooks on a Kindle « Techlogg.com. The Amazon Kindle reader is a great e-book reader and its worldwide 3G access is one of its great selling points.
But it’s greatest failing? It seems to be one of the very few ebook readers on the planet that cannot read the EPUB format. EPUB is an open-source e-book format that’s not only free from patents and used on most devices, it can also be used commercially as it supports (dare we say it) digital rights management or DRM. But Amazon seems to have decided that it would rather you only buy and read its books, rather than read anything in EPUB format. That said, reading any of the millions of EPUB ebooks available on the web on a Kindle is actually possible. Review: The 2011 $79 Kindle 4 with ads and buttons.
New $79 Kindle with ads (left), Kindle 3 (right), asleep Update, December: Many people have started calling this the Kindle 4, so now I will, too.
Referring to it as “the $79 Kindle” as I wrote this seemed too prone to future confusion. Nearly everything about the $79 Kindle is cheap. Amazon Kindle 3 and Kindle DX Review and News With Fire and Special Touch...