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Old 02-22-2015, 11:25 PM   #49
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
As for Alf, the tools can't distinguish bought from borrowed, or detect the smarter, lazier thief who is exploiting kindle's change your mind and request no quibble refund loophole. I guess the tools are very popular with poor college students wanting expensive text books which can be loaned
That is when Amazon notices that you have a pretty good track record of buying and returning books.

Considering you can keep them without DeDRMing at all, just do a bog-standard file-copy and reinstate the book after Amazon deletes the book...

Anyway, yes Amazon is on the lookout for habitual no-questions-asked-returners-of-purchases.

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Kindle prime , however, mostly uses a different DRM that is immune to tools, so I have to read those in the native kindle fire reader. No big deal as I''m unlikely to renew prime at current prices, when my year runs out.
I think you will find the difference is that the tools cannot DeDRM Kindle app books at all... that is, unless you use an altogether-more-complicated method of getting the app to show you the PID to enter in the DeDRM configuration. I believe there are details in the comments on Alf's blog.

Kindle Owners Lending Library, of course, only works with actual Kindle devices. Someone who usually DeDRMs using Kindle for PC might be unaware of that fact. Anyway, if you can DeDRM a library loan using an E-Ink Kindle (illegal an immoral though it is) then there is no difference on a technical level between that and DeDRMing a KOLL loan
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