If you have a Kindle and "bought" ebooks over the years, you have a week to download and back up your files before Amazon blocks you from doing that. There are scripts (see the thread below) that will bulk-download. It's a reminder that Amazon is a rapacious monopolist […] - ThreadSky

dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy • 7 days ago

If you have a Kindle and "bought" ebooks over the years, you have a week to download and back up your files before Amazon blocks you from doing that.

There are scripts (see the thread below) that will bulk-download.

It's a reminder that Amazon is a rapacious monopolist […]

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bjornh.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor punish the people who are actually paying for the content…..

oliver-schafeld.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

»Amazon has occasionally removed books from its online store and remotely deleted them from Kindles or edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers. In 2009, the company removed copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, explaining the books had been mistakenly […]

VulcanTourist.autistics.life.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor

I predicted this outcome when Kindle first debuted. I have never bought an e-book because of it.

mr-dirac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor can't find any option to download bought books, may be it depends by countries?

mr-dirac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor I found it and I was able to move them to my kobo using calibre!

Captain-Jack-Sparrow.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor

You can use Calibre plus a plugin to remove DRM and download ebooks.

https://youtu.be/oxgubolrcPo

And then maybe go and buy a Kobe open source ereader.

fuck amazon

quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@dangillmor my family has a rule about not buying anything we can't break the drm on. If we really need it and it's locked up too tight, it's piracy or substitution.

leo.60228.dev.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor these downloads are tied to a single device so backing them up is of questionable utility. the only reason anyone cares about this is because the drm on them has been broken for a very long time so most people breaking drm were still using it
but as of a few years ago you can also […]

leo.60228.dev.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor the vast majority of ebook drm has always been a token effort to keep publishers happy. honestly i assume this change is just to simplify their infrastructure, if it was actually to strengthen the drm then they would just roll out the stronger drm they've used in india for years […]

greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@dangillmor Worth noting the Python script, bookp.py, might need the WebDriverWait values tweaking to give you time to tackle the captchas that Amazon have thrown up. My approach was to change them to 15 seconds and and use the --showbrowser parameter, so when it stops on a captcha on login I […]

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