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This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.

However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.

There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.

Here are the terms of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can strip the DRM if needed

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yea Audible too. I can't remember the name of the tool but you can connect to your account and it pulls all your purchases locally DRM free. It was handy for setting up Audiobookshelf

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Libation (add audible to your search to find it)

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Just tried out Libation for the first time this week, very happy so far. Further testing of results is still required, but this was an excellent suggestion.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the reminder! I've gotten a bunch of free audible books and haven't backed them up in a while.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's true for the older Kindle format but not the newer one.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not entirely correct. If you own a legitimate copy of the book on your Kindle you can strip the DRM even on the newest version.

If you acquired the file through illegitimate means and it still has the DRM on it, then the newest DRM is indeed not possible to remove yet

I'm pretty sure it's less that you can crack the DRM on the newer format and more that you can get amazon to send you a version that's compatible with older devices (which uses the older DRM).