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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Recently, I had a book that would not open. Amazon rep confirmed that the license agreement had ended (withdrawn by publisher).
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Out of curiosity, what book is that? Kinda want to know what publisher would withdraw something
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Originally Posted by Timboli
While it's not the only other method, if you aren't running a modern enough version of Windows, and perhaps many Amazon customers, like me aren't, then you cannot install a version of K4PC that will fully work.
That's not to say I don't have access to a Windows 11 PC, but generally I use my older one for the web. That also includes using older calibre and DeDRM.
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I honestly don't have a windows 11 PC. All my personal systems run Mac or Linux. While I know Linux users are a tiny minority, mac users are definitely a thing.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I am increasingly happy to have jumped ship to Kobo. Their price matching means I'm actually paying less than if I'd stuck with Amazon.
Most recent example: Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford, recently dropped in price to £4.39 from £11.70 at Amazon UK. The price at Kobo is £11.99. Kobo's price-match (with the extra 10%) means it cost me £3.95 net at Kobo.
And I can download the .acsm file directly from the Kobo web site, and import that directly into calibre (thanks to deACSM and DeDRM) to get a drm-free ePub in one step.
I wish I'd switched years ago!
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How do you price match with Kobo? I will sometimes buy from Amazon if they're the cheapest, like the other day I got one that Amazon had for $1.99, when it was $10 elsewhere (Monster by A. Lee Martinez). I prefer doing Kobo when I can, for the same reasons.
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Originally Posted by A Lurker
If we have a way of removing DRM from kfx files on the device, then why are people upset about losing the D&T function? Perhaps I'm missing something, but it looks like we just need to switch from getting .azw files from Amazon's website to getting the kfx files from our devices? Is there a downside to this?
I realize some people might not have an Amazon device and were purchasing books from Amazon's website to read on a Kobo or other app. Without D&T they'll have no means of getting a copy of the book. I get that. But for people who do have a device, won't we be able to continue to use Calibre to save copies of our purchases?
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Not having D&T makes it much harder to back up your amazon purchases in bulk. By having D&T, people could run a script and download everything, but on kindle going one at a time is dreadfully slow. I have in the neighborhood of 3000 books in my Kindle library, can you imagine doing that on the device itself? I'd have to periodically make room because my Kindle doesn't even have enough storage capacity to hold all of the books at one time. Also, in my experience, AZW3 files were remarkably like epubs (basically HTML files in a zip archive), so conversions were quick and space efficient, and I've seen horror stories about conversion from KFX files being much larger. Also, not all Kindles support KFX, so there is some concern about support dropping for the older formats, and additional work being done to additional security to the DRM (which does happen, and it takes time to reverse engineer).