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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
submitted 4 days ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used this guide from a thread on Reddit. It relies on Calibre and a set of plugins https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Awesome, thanks!

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days 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.