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Here’s a way to get around the high walls of Amazon’s library.

The Kindle is an excellent e-reader, but it’s got one fatal flaw: you can’t read books purchased outside of Amazon, at least natively.

Luckily, there’s a way to get around this that’s a lot simpler than before. Here, we show how you can drag and drop books purchased from elsewhere to your Kindle in less than a minute.

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