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

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As far as I can tell, Kobos are bootloader locked now old.reddit.com/…/kobo_is_now_using_secure_boot_on…

  source

  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can still transfer epubs and most books on the kobo store are sold without DRM (publisher choice)

    source

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a far cry from

      Plenty of other electronics that you have full control over.

      mentioned in the first comment

      source

      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not arguing with your point, it’s valid. But I wanted to make it clear from OPs point about book DRM that this is not an issue with Kobo. The books themselves as mostly DRM free and you can put whatever you want on the device.

        source
  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.

    Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.

    source