Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
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One more reason not to buy ebooks from Amazon.
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It's because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.
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Honestly? Thatβs pretty amazing.
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Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you've funded the big A.
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Good luck accessing my ebooks.
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Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
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I have hundreds of books in my kindle. But 0 on Amazon.
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Very happy I got a PocketBook instead of the store locked alternatives
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Perfection is the enemy of better
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How is that legal?
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Buy elsewhere, or simple look up epubs and mail them to kindle
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I think with applications, like Calibre its relatively painless to save the whole library, if someone is ready to jump ship. Now its the perfect time.
I personally use a Kobo without the online features, which is fantastic, but there are many great Kindle alternatives without the corporate spyware bullshit.
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Because in the kindle store you're not purchasing the book but a license to the book.
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I don't think that will work with the .kfx file type. At least it didn't for me.
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A wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat.
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Windows only. Le sigh.
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First, you will need DeDRM v10.0.9 beta/RC or the alpha release. This will work on many (but not all) Kindle ebooks. (Some Kindle books come with extra-strength encryption that these tools cannot handle, etc.) If you have questions about installing, setting up, or using DeDRM, ask on GitHub.
"many but not all" hm.
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Sadly, Calibre doesn't handle .kfx at this time.
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Where do others buy epubs? (Besides the library) In many cases my obscure authors only use Amazon.
