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Originally Posted by bean
There's a big social ill of using DRM; check Cory Doctorow's many presentations. I felt that the trivial-to-remove B&N DRM was a fig leaf towards publishers and I could support it. I am not throwing good money at a company that betrayed its customers so.
Amazon is becoming both a monopoly and a monopsony in the ebook market so I am not supporting them. I am feeling dirty for having wavered over the Paperwhite; the screen was too good so I had one for a little while but it's gone now and when I had it I still didn't buy books at Amazon.
The evilness of Adobe DRM is an even deeper and more complex topic and yet... I feel I might need to look at Kobo as having no good options left. Although I only have Linux (and Android, rooted of course) so I am not 100% how that will work. I might need to press the banking terminal-only Windows machine into a DeDRM role as well. Yuck! That would mean I need to touch Windows more than once a month.
I have stolen most of my books I had since B&N's betrayal and I don't feel good. It is absolutely and totally ridiculous that I can download anything I want to read via a trivial Google search and don't need to fight DRM. But, I want the authors to get money.
So the question remains: where do we go now?
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As a linux user, I am happy to give Amazon money for leaving the door open to easily DeDRM my books. All you need is an E-Ink Kindle.
The alternative is using ADE or Kindle4PC under WINE, but it is not so easy to extract the keys, since python does not always want to install under WINE.
Kobo at one point had a linux build of Kobo Desktop -- it seems to have been abandoned. You can try installing that in WINE too, but I don't believe it works very well.