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Originally Posted by lkmiller
This is actually about taking the book from the Kindle Cloud Reader and converting to epub. But yeah crazy how much goes into obfuscating the text.
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I no longer think all this is just to be able to show people ads. The effort seems far too much only for that. I've started to think that Amazon is trying to stop their exclusives from ending up on pirate sites. As Amazon exclusives aren't legally available anywhere else, those who want to buy/borrow them must willy-nilly give their money to Amazon. The problem for Amazon is that lots of people probably just download pirated copies from various shadow libraries, and Amazon wants to stop this. That it also inconveniences their legal customers who want to read on non-Amazon devices or just make personal back-ups, is obviously of no interest whatsoever to Amazon.