DeDRM_tools

Regarding taking your Kindle books with you... the standard recommendation is to use the DeDRM plugin[1] for Calibre to convert your DRM'd books into plain old ePUBs. My understanding (I'm not a lawyer) is that this is perfectly legal to do in the US, because you're allowed to remove DRM from content you've purchased (a license to) for personal use. [1]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

That one has not been maintained for a couple years. Apparently, this is the current version, approved by the original maintainer: https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools

legal reasons? Seriously, has the DRM mafia cowed people so much? What the hell is wrong with sharing public software tools with others? Here's one option you might try (no connection to it but it seems to be one of the most recently usable, trustworthy versions) https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

Amazon have said that in the future if this happens again they will not remove the books from customer devices. https://mashable.com/archive/amazon-remote-delete > The statement, from Amazon's Drew Herdener, reads: > These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books...When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers....We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances. My Kindle is jail broken because I prefere using KOReader over Amazons own reader software. But even before it was jail broken if I ever brought books from Amazon I would use the "Download book to your computer" function and t

Alf no longer updates his repo[0], best to switch to noDRM's fork[1] [0]: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools [1]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

Sure, i use epy[1] and every month i d/l my books from amazon that i have bought, dedrm[2] through calibre and save the epubs to a folder. Its not a particularly arduous task. When i want to read i have an alias setup along the lines of: epy "$(fzf)" its a nice interface ;-) Now i don't often read full books in the terminal, BUT i do like being able to reference bits that i remember at a VERY quick speed. I recently was talking to somoene about biases we bring to statistics and could remember reading a great anecdote about it, using rga[3] i was able to bring up the passage VERY quickly in the terminal Like most great cli tools, its about the workflow [1] https://github.com/wustho/epy [2] https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/ [3] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

Shouldn't have "bought" them in the first place. Buy physical books, or DRM-free books on sites like gumroad, or just pirate. Don't give in to the rent seeking business of pretending to sell you what you can't own. If you like your Kindle device, you can use KOReader to read epubs and reduce dependence on Amazon. If I sue the bookstore, they can't just take all the books away, but if you dispute a charge with Amazon, they'll do it because the ToS says they can. At the very least, try downloading and de-DRMing all the books you received from them: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools