Kindle Fun
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poindexter FORTRAN@911:1415/0 to
All on Sat Oct 4 09:27:32 2025
So, Amazon started asserting that you purchase a license for content
when you "buy" a book from them. Fair use be damned, they've started
locking down the books - several months back, then removed the ability
to download books you'd "purchased" from their web site. Thankfully, I'd
heard about this and downloaded close to 900 books from their site
before they removed this feature. There are other ways of downloading
books, until now.
A recent Kindle update, without any reference to doing so, changes the encryption routine, relying on a key that's inaccessible on
non-jailbroken Kindles. With the new Kindle for PC or Kindle OS app, you
can't remove the DRM with the current tools.
Calibre is an eBook system, lets you catalog, change metadata, and
convert ebooks from one format to another. It has a plugin system, and
several people have written plugins to remove DRM. It's only a matter of
time.
Thankfully, an older version of Kindle for PC still works to store books
in a format that Calibre can read - as long as you don't let Amazon
update their Kindle app. I'm sure they'll break that capability soon.
The first book I bought that I was unable to archive, I returned to
Amazon. Found the same book for the same price on another ebook seller
without DRM for the same price, and bought it there.
I don't think voting with your dollars on eBooks will register a blip with Amazon's financials, but it's eye-opening to see the enshittification of
book e-commerce when that's where they got their start.
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