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I read sometime back that Kindle Unlimited pays authors after a certain amount of the book has been read, or maybe it was they pay for the number of pages that have been read. I don't remember exactly and what I read might be out of date now anyway.
I think the question comes down to whether running the book through Alf would be seen as reading by Amazon. I doubt if it would.
That, to me, isn't the real issue though. If I rent a book and keep a copy for myself, maybe they get cheated and maybe they don't. The issue isn't who loses it's that I've tried to cheat them.
I'll buy a book and remove DRM happily. I've bought the book. That the TOS says I haven't doesn't really matter. I know that I have and they know it too even if they have legalese that says otherwise in case I abuse the system. I don't abuse it so the issue is moot. I've contacted Amazon about that and they agree, by the way. I often send my Alf'd books back as docs so I can read them on my Kindle and not have to worry about having it on too many devices. I've told Amazon I'm doing that because I don't want to hurt my relationship with them and they see no issue.
I don't have KU but if I did I wouldn't make copies of those books. I do get a Prime lending book every now and then and I've never copied one of them.
Barry
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