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F**k Amazon, part 2 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Feeee23@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Don't throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don't let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What happened ?

[–] Feeee23@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Amazon disabled the the possibility to download the books you bougth onto your pc and sometimes they change or delete books wich will change the books on your kindle. In the yt video linked the person says the changed for example the cover of books to advertise a new show based on the book.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

They disabled one way of doing it. You can still use the Kindle for PC app, or Adobe Digital Editions app.

I get free books from Amazon sometimes and just use ADE then convert them to free ePUB books using deDRM in Calibre.

It's really no more difficult than the old way, you just need to use the app instead of the web browser.

[–] Feeee23@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Im definitely not going to install an Amazon or adobe software on my Pc, dont even know if it works on Linux🙈

[–] Sanguine_Sasquatch@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I know calibre has some dedrm add-on that removes DRM with an anonymous adobe digital editions account. That might be able to do the DRM removing and converting without needing to install ADE