In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers
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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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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.
Enter "[book name] [desired file format such as PDF or epub]" into search engine of choice
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Not going to tear down my de-drm setup any time soon. But optimistic I might be able to before amazon does it for me.
As far as I'm aware it's now too late for that. Amazon has removed the ability to download ebooks to your computer meaning the only way to access azw files now is if you've found a way to rip them out of the Kindle memory (not possible using normal means, but maybe if you've cracked one open and probed the flash memory directly).
I used to de-drm all my kindle purchases using the manual download links Amazon had, but those have now been removed. That's actually what prompted me to switch to Kobo. I'm not going to "purchase" a book I can't create a backup of.
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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Plus I actually want to support the authors. My issue is with Amazon not the authors, so I want to pay for the books I'm reading so they can keep making more of them. If I could buy the books directly from the authors in some cases I would, and in all cases if it was available from the Kobo store I'd be willing to buy it there. Unfortunately that damn exclusivity clause on Kindle Unlimited means my options for them are Amazon, Amazon, or Amazon (or roll the dice on piracy and not support the author, not to mention even when it is the book in question the quality is often poor).
I wonder how feasible it would be to just donate to your favorite authors
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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.
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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If you own a kindle reader you can just connect it via usb and dedrm the kfx files.
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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I wonder how feasible it would be to just donate to your favorite authors
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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If you paid feel free to pirate it.
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Once again, "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing."
Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
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Me too brother. For some reason There's a lot of american classics that don't have a good scan on archive (totally forgot about project gutenberg) but Anna has served so well
.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
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Lots here too.
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
I always look on itch.io and GoG first!
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.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
An archive.
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.......can I get clued into whats being discussed? What is Anna?
I suggest you look that up with duckduckgo
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While that may be true, so far at least they seem to be doing an OK job. Their ebooks are often sold sans-DRM, and in the cases they aren't every one I've gotten has used Adobe Digital Editions which are easy to strip the DRM from (and is a wildly supported standard unlike Amazon's proprietary DRM scheme). Additionally their e-reader devices, while not open hardware are repairable with disassembly guides provided by them and they even sell replacement components like screens. I have not verified this claim, but they also claim to use recycled plastic for manufacturing them and recycled cardboard for their packaging (should you care about such things).
For better or worse, if you want a Kindle like experience, you're likely going to be forced into working with a large-ish corporation, but despite the average experience when doing so that doesn't mean that corporation must be an evil anti-consumer hellscape of rapaciousness and greed. So far at least, Rakuten/Kobo seem to be doing OK by their customers.
Rakuten is a big mess of data tracking and advertisment but I'm glad to hear Kobo remains a good product.
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Who is downvoting this?!
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.
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Guess we should also pirate all steam games too.
Several Steam games are DRM-free and don't even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.
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Enter "[book name] [desired file format such as PDF or epub]" into search engine of choice
And ideally your search engine of choice would be z-library or libgen
