Thread: Amazon and DRM changes
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Old 05-23-2025, 02:20 PM   #2978
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
KF8 was never ideal. It's better then KFX, but ideal? Nope. Amazon did not need KFX. They could have made a new KF8 renderer to do hyphens, kerning, and ligatures. That's what Adobe did with Digital Editions.

On the Kindles that are still getting firmware updates, the UI is a right mess. Personally, I much prefer the 6.8" PW5 to the 7" PW6. I do not like what Amazon did with the 2024 Kindles with MTP.
What I'm trying to say is that while the West has options for DRM-free eBook stores, that's simply not the case here in Japan. Every single eBook store in Japan has its own proprietary DRM.

Thanks to DeDRM, Kindle used to be the perfect choice as a source for DRM-free Japanese EPUBs. The EPUBs extracted from KF8 using KindleUnpack completely preserved the publisher's original file structure and CSS, despite having some unnecessary metadata. That level of fidelity was deeply satisfying to me.
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