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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not necessarily 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. And EPUB is not a proprietary format, unlike AZW3 and KFX.

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.