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FWIW it's fairly simple to make your own DRM-less version of Kindle books you have purchased.

• emblaegh 8y ago
  Is that legal though?
  • jonknee 8y ago
    Probably 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Well 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 ago
      Removing DRM from any kind of audio you can play on a PC is trivial.