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I'm looking to change my reading and buying habits away from Amazon and need an alternate source for my ebooks. Where can I buy ebooks that won't expire or have their licence revoked and will allow me to download a copy of that ebook I can store on my own system regardless of the websites status?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If you get it off Amazon, you can use Calibre to download the ebook. Then convert to ebook .epub and now it's yours forever. I don't like this but some books are not possible to get it legally without Amazon.

Or use baen to buy. Or if your really lucky off the authors official website.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Head's up - since Jan this year, this route is ONLY available if you have registered a Kindle with them. The new format used by amazon cannot be "unencrypted", even by calibre, without a Kindle "unencrypting" it for you or providing it's key or whatever the dark magic required is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

providing it is key or whatever the dark magic

Is it possible that someone could work out a way for Calibre to "pretend to be a Kindle"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's terrible, thanks for the he heads up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're an audible user, libation is a great way to own your audio books the way calibre does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That beats connecting the speaker jack to the mic jack and recording with audacity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I used to do that all the time as a kid, and there are still songs where I expect to hear a windows tone over it in specific spots....