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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…
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    Good luck accessing my ebooks.

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      Get them out of Amazon:

      https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503

      It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.

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        I have hundreds of books in my kindle. But 0 on Amazon.

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        First, you will need DeDRM v10.0.9 beta/RC or the alpha release. This will work on many (but not all) Kindle ebooks. (Some Kindle books come with extra-strength encryption that these tools cannot handle, etc.) If you have questions about installing, setting up, or using DeDRM, ask on GitHub.

        “many but not all” hm.

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          I had some issues at first then decided to actually RTFM and once i entered my kindle serial number into the plugin, worked perfectly.

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          FWIW, I did not have a single book with DRM issues. That being said, I don’t have too many “hot bestsellers” or something similar.

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