In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers
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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.
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Who is downvoting this?!
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I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.
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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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And ideally your search engine of choice would be z-library or libgen
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There seems to be a few publishers missing here ..
- Baen books (https://www.baen.com/) have never applied DRM to their books.
- TOR (https://torpublishinggroup.com/) stopped DRM on their books about ten years ago.
Baen typically sells their wares directly but TOR are through the usual sellers but have no DRM. I'm not sure how this works in practise with Amazon's new "you can't get the files" policy, but they are probably in cleartext somewhere.
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If you are into light novels the publisher JNovel Club sells their books DRM free from their website
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Jeff bezos probably
