Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Adding on to this that Barnes and Noble sells DRMed ePUB files that are relatively easy to strip DRM from using Calibre.

  So if you can’t find a book anywhere else, at least they don’t use a proprietary format and still allow you to download your books using their PC software.

  I was a semi-early adopter in the ebook space and I have refused to get onboard with the kindle ecosystem from the start. There’s no reason for their proprietary format other than complete control over things they pretend to sell you. Amazon is also the Walmart of books and uses their position to browbeat publishers and authors into taking smaller cuts of sales.

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  • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Kobo.com DRM is also very easy to bypass and turn into epub using knock

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I hate Amazon’s proprietary format too because one time it was the only download available and my reader just can’t display it!!

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  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do the non-kindle e-readers link to Libby? I may eventually try to get my wife and I off our kindles and she uses that when she can.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      100% yes on Nook, and as far as I know Kobo hasn’t dropped compatibility.

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