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Originally Posted by stardustshadow
OK so in theory i could buy an ebook from Amazon and de-DRM it and read it on an Opus, right? Is this hard/complicated/legal?
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Simple: no
Legal: not in France, I don't know about Denmark (probably not)
Doable: at the moment yes, but Amazon may change things at any time to make it harder. And then somebody will come up with a new way of circumventing it, and you will have to figure out how to use the new tools. It's a major pain in the backside, but mostly it's doable. I just wish we didn't have to do this to read books we have purchased the way we want to. But this is not a problem specific to Amazon, in fact the publishers (and probably some authors) are to blame for the whole DRM headache.
To be quite honest, and it really pains me to say this, it is probably simpler to buy a Kindle and liberate Adobe ePubs to read them, than the other way around (buying an ePub reader and liberating Amazon books, I mean). For instance, if you have a Mac like me, there is still no way to remove DRM on Amazon books ought for the Kindle app on Mac. As far as I know. And that's why I still hate Amazon. And dream of buying a Kindle DX
