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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 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 · 5 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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    I was able to export (you’ll have to remove DRM via plugin) all of Kindle ebooks into epub using part of this guide:

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

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      Windows only. Le sigh.

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        What do you mean? The guide OP mentioned has instructions for MacOS. Also, the software referenced (Calibre and DeDRM plugin) are available on Linux systems as well.

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          You’re right. Method 2b is for mac.

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          The Kindle app needs to be a specific version, and sadly the one needed for MacOS to grab the by Calibre dedrm-able files from Kindle doesn’t work anymore.

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        I keep a Win10 VM kicking for things like this. Sure I could probably do it with Wine, but sometimes I just take the easy route.

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