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And I have to derail the discussion by throwing in a minor quibble: You're not looking for unprotected books, you're looking for unrestricted books. Who are they "protected" against -- your sister who just wants to use her books? There's no protection involved, except for platform lock-in for device vendors. There are a lot of restrictions, though, which you've just run up against. Especially in your case, one shouldn't use the DRM promoters' terminology (that's conceding the field to them anyway, and just quibbling over trifles). You need unrestricted books.
As for your problem, unfortunately I don't know what the state of the UK laws is, except that it's highly unlikely that they in any way benefit the consumer. I think that's what you need to look at, though. With a device that didn't check in with its vendor regularly I'd suggest just stripping the DRM, but since the Kindle is known to communicate with Amazon (it reports on your reading, annotations, etc.) and since Amazon is known to issue commands to the Kindle (deleting books, most notably) I'd be very paranoid about doing anything I didn't want any random script at Amazon to know about.
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