Finally got around to backing up my over 200 audiobooks in a DRM-free format after this post reminded me it was on my to-do list. Libation is pretty damn good.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
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Also to add that amazon has been caught encouraging users to "refund" e-books and purchase a different one, without telling users that these refunds are clawed back from the Authors.
Then to double fuck the Authors they didnt give authors detailed statements - only payments of the monthly total, so any "refunds" were deducted from the total sales from that month and author paid the difference. This was only noticed when an author with an accounting/finance background noticed a negative payment statement one month and looked into this and found amazon routinely charging back authors, sometimes for multiple copies of 'refunds' that didnt actually get refunded, straight up stealing from the Authors.
I do, I get them directly from IRC
How lol, Books are the only thing where I find it hard to ... well, get a legal copy from cough
IRCHighway channel #ebooks, don't use a web client, I won't give you links but this should be enough to send you on your way
Thank you, I'll find my way :)
I looked in to the whole DRM removal thing. From what I could tell, everything was majorly out of date, required a really old version of Calibre, and didn't work with newer books.
Edit: So, this is out of date info. There's a fork and it works with a fairly recent version of the PC app. Basically no fuss.
The DeDrm plugin and the most recent Calibre worked for me just yesterday on a brand new book. Something that's easy to miss is that you need to put in the serial number of your kindle device and make sure you download the e-book for that same device. Otherwise the plugin won't be able to decrypt it.
Yep, looked it up again today and some proper information has been posted publicly in the interim since I last tried. I was able to strip the drm from a handful of my books today using it and an older version of the Kindle PC app.
Glad you sorted it!
Calibre can be recent - the plug-in was abandoned but forked, but an old physical Kindle is beneficiary. However some books in the store are no longer available for those lately.
This is why I only read books from the library
My wife is big on library, and I need to, but I grew up just pirating stuff, so here we are. But she has a book club, and she'll place a request for the book, and in the event it's not yet available, she maintains the request but I get it for her. And for me personally, when I like a book or a series, I go and snag them later. I just prefer reading in Kindle anymore.
Jokes on you I pirates mine!
"I'm aware, Amazon just hosts things I got from libgen and the #bookz undernet irc channel."
Duh. Same goes for Steam games and most of digital content.
If you want to keep it, there's usually always an option to sail the high seas.
Except Steam never deletes games that you already own or takes them away from you for other reasons.
Yes, they could do that in the future but its the one company where that is unlikely.
Not Steam/Valve but others will surely try something.
Example: Best case scenario happened to Rocket League.
Yeah, while Gaben is still at the helm...
Not an American, but I did buy digital books on Amazon and Kindle.
Have you seen the new ruling about games from California? Doest that apply to ebooks (since its digital goods?) Or not?
Kobo and epub only. Anything else, you don't own and you shouldn't pay for it.
Technically, we're one update away from Kobo taking our device away too. I do love my KOReader on my Clara 2E though
I just want a nice eReader that I can put something like Alpine on.
Doesn't matter. All my books are epub. If kobo starts eating dick, I go somewhere else.
Amazon is on my shit list and will not buy any products from them ever again. They are one of the worst monopolist mega corporations. They treat their employees like slaves, are anti-repair, anti-consumer.
I gifted an older Kindle to my sister, and the screen broke (out of warranty). I contacted Amazon about it, and they basically said they don't make replacement parts and don't service the kindles, they can only give me a small discount for buying a new one.
I looked up a guide on doing it myself, and even if I find a replacement screen, it's really difficult. The screen is glued with a strong adhesive. The entire device looks very cheaply built and deliberately made really difficult to repair.
I mean to be fair they are very cheap to purchase all things considered. That said I’ve still got my Kindle 3 I bought used on eBay and it’s still going strong after like 10 years I’ve owned it.
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