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The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

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101 points kozmonaut | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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lentil_soup ◴[27 Sep 25 08:48 UTC] No.45394178[source]▶
Honest question. Where can I buy ebooks outside Amazon to use with my jailbroken Kindle? Is there a Bandcamp for books?

I want properly created files the kindle can render with the options I want, not a pdf that forces a layout.

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uncircle ◴[27 Sep 25 12:27 UTC] No.45395130[source]▶
I buy ebooks outside Amazon with my non-jailbroken Kindle. They’re usually DRM’d EPUB files, which I unDRM with Calibre and transfer to my device, which I have kept in airplane mode for the better part of a year.

The bonus part is Calibre keeps a local copy on your PC, so now all my book purchases are backupped and without DRM.

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1. 1317 ◴[27 Sep 25 12:37 UTC] No.45395200[source]▶
well ok so can you answer the actual question then