Thank you, Travis, for debunking that myth that removing DRM from your own e-books is somehow "illegal". I was too infuriated when I originally read that absurd assertion in Marcelo's post, to even bother to reply to it. ;-) What I typically do is exactly what you described: I buy an e-book from Amazon, and I immediately strip DRM from it (using the DeDrm utility) and convert it into EPUB using either Calibre or www.2epub.com , all of which is only a matter of seconds, so that I can read that e-book in Stanza on the iPad and iPhone, too. No one can force me, a paying customer, to read my own e-books using inferior reader software such as the Kindle app or iBooks. Only the best will do -- and Stanza is definitely the finest reader software for the iPad and iPhone, although it, too, has its flaws and deficiencies. Naturally, I don't distribute the converted file to anyone except myself. It's just completely automatic for me: before I start reading *any* e-book, I create 4 copies of it. 2 copies are in MOBI/PRC/AZW, so that I can read the book on my 2 Kindles (small & DX). And the other 2 copies are in EPUB, so that I read the same book in Stanza on the iPad and iPhone as well. It's very convenient to have the same book available with you, no matter where you are, no matter what your outside circumstances may be. If it's daytime, Kindle is the ideal reading device. After it gets dark, it's the iPad's turn. And when you're out-and-about and find a few spare minutes to read, Stanza on the iPhone will serve that purpose marvelously. (Yep, I always need to collate my notes from the 4 locations manually after I finish reading a book, but that isn't too bothersome for me. By the way, the often-praised feature in Kindle, that of keeping your "last page synchronized" across devices, doesn't work properly anyway! For example, if you read a non-fiction book and happen to take a brief look at a supplement at the back of the book, Kindle will immediately store *that* location as your "furthest read", and will attempt to synchronize it across all your devices. So, the feature is useless, and I had to disable it on my Kindles.) -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [processed by "The Bat!", Version 4.2.10.12]