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Whenever I buy an ebook I go through the painful process of downloading it to my laptop either directly from the store (e.g. Kobo) or via Calibre [0] if I bough
by barbazoo 5y ago
Whenever I buy an ebook I go through the painful process of downloading it to my laptop either directly from the store (e.g. Kobo) or via Calibre [0] if I bought it from Amazon which I try to avoid, removing DRM via some tool I found somewhere and uploading it to the ebook again via Calibre. It's annoying an probably illegal but no one can take my ebooks away that way.
[0] https://calibre-ebook.com/ https://calibre-ebook.com/
- kubanczyk 5y agoMe too. Just to be sure I've also put my Kindle on Airplane mode as soon as I got it. It has been working like this for years.
- Aeolun 5y agoWait, you can convert Amazon’s format to something DRM free?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoIt's text, even the best DRM would be foiled by OCR. It's definitely illegal in the US though.
- Aeolun 5y agoTrue, but flipping through the book to copy all pages is too much effort to copy the file to my remarkable instead.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI'm pretty sure the kindle DRM is broken easier than that, DeDRM came up on my quick search, but flipping through the book to copy all the pages is an easily scriptable task.
- barbazoo 5y agoYou can remove the DRM, no need to do any OCR shenanigans. But yes, it's of course illegal but I've paid for the book so I don't really care.