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> You don’t own the book. You cannot lend the book. Renting Kindle-compatible eBooks from the library is arduous and limited by artificial constraints; you lite
by throwaway705132 5y ago
> You don’t own the book. You cannot lend the book. Renting Kindle-compatible eBooks from the library is arduous and limited by artificial constraints; you literally need to return a book before another person can rent it.
The first thing I do when I buy or borrow a book from Amazon is strip the DRM. I don't share the DRM-free file with anyone - it's just for me - but it lets me read when and where I want.
- criddell 5y agoThe latest Kindle DRM still isn't reliably broken. It's a cat-and-mouse game now. If you don't care about typography improvements that come in the newest version, there are ways you can download the file in an older format that is thoroughly broken. I don't understand why some publishers ever agreed to let Amazon apply their DRM to book files. It locks their readers to Amazon and thus gives Amazon a tremendous amount of power over publishers. They should have at least demanded Amazon license their DRM to other bookstores and e-readers or, even better, never bothered with DRM. There are publishers on Amazon who do not use DRM. Tor is a big one, but there are others.