Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• LaggyKar@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is some authors signing exclusivity deal with Amazon, which means breaking the DRM and converting it is the only way to read it on a different e-reader.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too bad. Then theres no sale unless I can crack the DRM ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This. All of these problems are solved by people not giving money. But often it seems difficult for people to actually stand behind principle when the time comes – convenience is a helluva drug.

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      • ferrule@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i was dumbfounded that so many people stood up against Disney. it was so opposite of what modern americans do.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem is some authors signing exclusivity deal with Amazon

    Well then those authors can go straight to corpo-sellout hell and die a painfully death, I’d rather never read a book again than buy from amazon.

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s only takes one person to crack those books and spread them across the high seas and the only way to force authors to abandon Amazon.

    There are always people who extra motivated by these challenges. The fact that these are written texts and shown on a screen means there will always be away to scrap the content off even if that involves a camera on a second device.

    DRM only hurts customers who want to pay for content.

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• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep, I had a Kindle library of a few dozen books, when they started their shenanigans locking down the desktop client earlier this year I downloaded all of them, de-drmed and converted to epub with Calibre. Hosting them on Calibre-web and accessing with KOreader on a Kobo. I continue to buy books on Kobo and Google Books, which let me download copies (albeit with DRM).

  Makes me wonder after all these years why Amazon is locking down ability to move books around. I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened! The market of cheap e-ink Android ereaders seems to be growing more and more

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  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I started that process and hit a road block after getting all the books downloaded to my pc. Can you recommend any tutorials or guides that might help get everything converted?

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    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used this guide from a thread on Reddit. It relies on Calibre and a set of plugins reddit.com/…/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/

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      • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Awesome, thanks!

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened!

    Probably the opposite. They’re confident they won’t lose sales over this because they’re too firmly established as a monopoly. And they know that with Trump in office they’re not going to face any pushback from the FTC.

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