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Originally Posted by cfrizz
As much as the Anti drm'ers state that stripping drm is easy, I've checked it out & quite honestly the time it would take me to go through all of the process, I could spend time actually READING my books.
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So happens I downloaded some software a couple days ago that claimed to strip both Kindle and B&N DRM[1]. This seemed like a good excuse to test the claim, so I downloaded a sample ebook from Amazon[2]. Had it liberated in 38 seconds flat, and a good chunk of that was just waiting for the software to load. There's even a bulk mode, so I could fell an entire forest at a single stroke. Almost made me wish I actually
had a Kindle library to point it at.
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I think I've taken sufficient means to protect my investment in ebooks. So unless all the stores that I've bought my books from, & Adobe all go belly up, I think I'm fine.
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Hmm... most of the bookstores I frequented twenty years ago have already bitten the dust. Surprisingly, my books are still on my shelves.
And there's the rub -- the very idea that I should have to go through a gatekeeper just to read. Pretty frightening thought -- that Amazon not only controls access to my books but dictates when and where I can read them. Just imagine, the day Amazon shuffles off the mortal coil, suddenly hundreds of millions of bought-n-paid-for ebooks all over the world evaporate into the binary ether.
I'm just not the type to trade away my reading rights for a spot of convenience. Fortunately for Amazon, most folk are.
--Nathanael
[1] Fortuitously, I live in a country where possession of such software is not a crime.
[2] A mini-adventure in itself.
Step 1: install Kindle for PC. But Amazon wouldn't let me download the software because I'm running a prohibited operating system (Linux). So I fired up an XP VM, reconnected, and downloaded the software.
Step 2: purchase (
purchase?!?) a sample ebook. Once again, Amazon refused to do business because it said I live in a forbidden geographical area (and thereby, in one swell foop, consigning half the world to the digital hinterlands). So I fired up my proxy software, reconnected through a Stateside proxy service I frequently use to scale the Chinese firewall, and suddenly Amazon was all smiles. (You can read all the details in my latest novel,
Confessions of a Cyberthief, available now for digital download at Amazon.
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