In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers
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You certainly don't want to use shodan to search
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And you definitely don't want to find an open ebook library to get kindle-only books.
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Is there any way to liberate existing ebooks now that Amazon has pulled the plug on downloading? An unfortunate friend of mine has “bought" Books from Amazon for thousands of euros and he just now finds out that he doesn't seem to own them. I'd help him free his books if there is a possibility.
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Enter "[book name] [desired file format such as PDF or epub]" into search engine of choice
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If you own a kindle reader you can just connect it via usb and dedrm the kfx files.
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I use a kobo e-reader and it works a treat. Looks and feels good, and can load any ol downloaded epub book without issue with Calibre.
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I wonder how feasible it would be to just donate to your favorite authors
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If you have a rooted Android device or a jailbroken Kindle device, yes, you can still use Calibre DeDRM and KFX Input plugins on the kindle ebooks downloaded on them. It just takes a bit more setup with getting the key you need.
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No you can't. They changed the firmware so eBook downloads now go into a partition that's not accessible when mounting the kindle over USB.
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In some cases very, but in others not so much. Some of them have Patreon accounts or other ways to accept payment, but in many cases you'll be doing good just to find a working email address for them. Ideally though I'd prefer to just pay for the books outright rather than trying to do some kind of grey area thing where I'd pirate the book and then donate the cost to them (if for no other reason than it causes tax headaches for everyone involved).
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
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.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
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Lots here too.
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I always look on itch.io and GoG first!
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An archive.
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I suggest you look that up with duckduckgo
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Rakuten is a big mess of data tracking and advertisment but I'm glad to hear Kobo remains a good product.
