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You can remove Kindle DRM with Calibre? News to me. (Also, it still doesn't address the principle of the matter: digital music has gone DRM-free, it's time for
by rkudeshi 16y ago
You can remove Kindle DRM with Calibre? News to me.
(Also, it still doesn't address the principle of the matter: digital music has gone DRM-free, it's time for eBooks to do the same.)
- bcaulf 16y agoCalibre does not remove DRM as a built in feature but there are plugins available that do it. DRM is bound to lose on books. One reason is the analog hole, same as with music. A dedicated hobbyist with a scanner and OCR could easily produce unencumbered e-books even if DRM were perfect. Also, the bits in an e-book are always going to be easy to pirate just because there are so few of them. A book weighs in around a half a megabyte of uncompressed text.
- vacri 16y agoAre you aware that there are a great many places to purchase DRM-free ebooks at places other than Amazon? And that programs like Calibre can format-shift these to kindle-readable formats? You're not vendor-locked with the Kindle with these tools. Your /brain/ might be vendor-locked though, if you think that a Kindle will only ever read stuff bought from Amazon. I bought a Kindle for a friend, and torrented hundreds of ebooks for her. She hasn't paid a cent to DRM formats. When she wants a new book, she can purchase an ebook from somewhere other than Amazon if she wants to avoid DRM, and use Calibre to convert to .mobi format, which the Kindle happily reads.
- rkudeshi 16y agoBut that's my point exactly: I don't want to torrent books, I want to purchase them legally. Also, do any DRM-free stores have nearly the selection of Amazon/B&N/iBooks? From what I understand, the DRM-free stores only have independent/self-published books.