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Last year I decided to exit the Kindle ecosystem after buying quite a few books in it, and cracking the DRM was a pretty near thing. I was lucky to have an olde
by caconym_ 4y ago
Last year I decided to exit the Kindle ecosystem after buying quite a few books in it, and cracking the DRM was a pretty near thing. I was lucky to have an older Kindle device sitting around that didn't support Amazon's latest DRM. It seems like they may be winning the arms race.
As an individual with a few hundred ebooks rather than an institution with millions of them, I'm a lot less concerned about losing my un-DRM'd files and/or the ability to read them, but I very nearly lost my entire ebook library just because I fell into Kindle's convenience trap. I've decided now to only buy ebooks that don't have DRM.
- teraflop 4y agoIMHO, there is effectively no moral or ethical difference between cracking the DRM on a book you've purchased and downloading a copy of the same book from Library Genesis. And the latter is usually more convenient, in my experience.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoThis is why I love buying eBooks from Baen.com directly. Edit: fixed. Stupid autocorrect
- rolobio 4y agoThat is a placeholder site?
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoIt was supposed to be the publisher, Baen, but I didn't catch my autocorrect. Fixed.
- Havoc 4y agoThe newer kindle stuff is crack able too just a little bit more painful
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