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

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s a far cry from

      Plenty of other electronics that you have full control over.

      mentioned in the first comment

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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