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Don't forget DRM stripping.
by paol 7y ago
Don't forget DRM stripping.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y agoI had mentally lumped that under "management," but maybe I should've added "conversion" as a category. Certainly DeDRM Tools has been worth the price of admission alone.
- hiram112 7y agoDo you know if the various 'add-ons' that were required to strip Kindle of DRM are still available and updated. Years ago, I enjoyed stripping my own purchased Kindle books to ePub with Calibre, so I could read them on my non-Kindle device, but it wasn't so easy as the patches became harder to find, and Amazon would constantly change their DRM.
- skrowl 7y agoThat's the primary reason I use it. Strip DRM from my purchased books and then upload to Google Books for viewing on all my devices.
- michaelmrose 7y agoHave you considered that maybe you shouldn't be buying DRM content in the first place? If you are going to spend money buy a physical book and consider passing it on after you have read it if you don't want to reread or refer to later.
- captn3m0 7y agoSometimes I don’t want a physical copy because it is: 1. unavailable in my country at a reasonable price 2. Something I’d rather read while travelling. And often, Kindle e-books are the only ones that are priced by region. I try to buy from DRM free stores wherever possible, but it isn’t always doable.
- michaelmrose 7y agoMaybe piracy would be more acceptable? You could always mail the author the cost of the ebook if he doesn't have an online method to accept donations.
- captn3m0 7y agoI've done that in the past, but a lot of authors have rightful objections to this, since these direct payments to authors don't reach publishers, editors, and many other people who make the book happen.
- skrowl 7y agoUnfortunately, many books are ONLY available from stores that still use DRM. Physical books are much less convenient in that I can't carry 50 of them around in my pocket like I can with books on my phone.
- michaelmrose 7y agoBuy the book from author, donate to someone, download from the internet.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y agoSearch for "DeDRM", follow the first result you see to Apprentice Alf's blog. That should lead you to the GH repo with instructions. It's still a bit of a pain, you may need to intentionally downgrade your version of the Amazon for Kindle app to an older version where the tools can break the encryption. But it can be done.
- jpindar 7y agoOr you can download the older file format from the Amazon web page under "Manage Your Content and Devices", "Download and transfer via USB".
- input_sh 7y agoThe pain kinda disappears if you have a physical Kindle. You enter the serial number once during setup of the plugin, then download the books from amazon.com/myk ("Download & transfer via USB" option), and just drag-and-drop downloaded files into Calibre's interface. Works on Ubuntu too, which is really a PITA otherwise.
- captn3m0 7y agoI never managed to get this working weirdly. Still running Kindle for PC 1.17 on Wine.
- bredren 7y agoTechnically plugins do this, right?