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.
Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t buy Amazon products. Fairly simple concept.
LaggyKar@programming.dev 6 months ago
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Too bad. Then theres no sale unless I can crack the DRM ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months 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.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
i was dumbfounded that so many people stood up against Disney. it was so opposite of what modern americans do.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 months 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
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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?
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 months 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/
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Awesome, thanks!