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Most ebook sellers try to lock you into a particular ecosystem. If you don't mind buying from the same company every time, this isn't too bad, but you lose the ability to comparison shop, as well as making it difficult to switch apps. Fortunately, there's a way around this problem.
In most other areas of life, we usually do comparison shopping for a better price. The trouble with ebook lock-in is that if your whole library is on the Kindle, you won't want to buy a book from another store. This is silly. We'll show you how to share books between libraries in a minute, but first you need books to start with!
Ebook search site Luzme is a handy tool for comparing book pricing among various stores. In addition to showing you prices for a given title across several services (including Kindle, Google Play, iTunes, Nook, Sony, and others), it also shows you how the price has changed over time so you can see if it's at a particular low point or if it it's likely to fluctuate at all.
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Regardless of where you buy your ebooks, you probably want to be able to read all of your books in a single place.The best way to do this is to move all of your books into one service. While none of the major bookstores offer a direct way to port your library to their competitors, it's possible to convert and upload them to most.
If you decide to follow this guide for all of your books, you should probably choose a target service based on which app you enjoy reading with the most (you know, the way it should be). However, it's harder to upload outside books to some services than others. For example, it's technically possible to read Epub books on a Kindle, but it's a little convoluted and might require manually moving files every time. For this guide, we'll use Google Play Books as our target because, once the conversion process is completed, you can upload an Epub to your library once and it will immediately be available on all your devices.
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The first step to consolidating your library is to convert your ebooks to the proper format. For this guide, we'll convert to Epub since it's the most versatile format, but the app we're going to use supports converting between a variety of formats, so you can strip the DRM and add it to just about any device you want. For this example, we'll show you how to convert Kindle books. This guide builds on our previous guide on how to strip DRM from your ebooks. If you don't care about converting your books, you can check out that guide for simplified instructions.
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How to Buy Ebooks From Anywhere and Still Read Them All in One Place