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I sometimes worry about how many Kindle books I own. eBooks are extremely convienent (except maybe the need to consume power to view them), but as this article
by Teknoman117 8y ago
I sometimes worry about how many Kindle books I own. eBooks are extremely convienent (except maybe the need to consume power to view them), but as this article points out, the ownership problem is concerning. All it takes is my Amazon account getting stolen, or Amazon exercising some right they've given themselves to take the book away.
What I'd really like to see is a push for "drm-less" books, so you wouldn't be tied to Amazon's systems in order to read something you've bought rights to access.
- jonknee 8y agoFWIW it's fairly simple to make your own DRM-less version of Kindle books you have purchased.
- emblaegh 8y agoIs that legal though?
- jonknee 8y agoProbably not, but I have no personal problem with backing up my own content and it's not like there's an actual legal risk for doing so.
- Teknoman117 8y agoI was avoiding mentioning this, not just because of the questionable legality in some counties, but rather because it's more of a workaround. All Amazon has to do is sufficiently alter the encryption mechanisms for new books. Same thing goes with Spotify. Tools exist to strip the encryption from the offline cache (they are either encrypted mp3 or vorbis, don't remember), but it's a workaround. I suspect it's why they killed off libspotify, which sucked because I used that to make a hackjob spotify client for RPi...
- jonknee 8y agoWell my point is you can make that backup now for any books you already purchased and if they change it in the future you can decide to not buy any more books. Spotify doesn't let you buy any music so I have never wanted to strip its DRM and haven't even looked into how to do it.
- jpindar 8y agoRemoving DRM from any kind of audio you can play on a PC is trivial.