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Originally Posted by HarryT
You certainly do have to remove the DRM which tells the device "this book has TTS disabled".
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I agree that this is part of DRM for encrypted ebooks, because they can only be read by the official reader software which will honor the TTS flag. The TTS anti-circumvention exception probably allows removal of this TTS-related DRM, and Amazon has made this particularly easy to do.
The more interesting case is the un-encrypted samples (and perhaps un-encrypted full ebooks). We typically call these DRM-free, but they can still contain the TTS-flag and a clippinglimit which the Kindle will honor. I don't think this rises to the level of DRM, and so these ebooks are covered by conventional copyright law which allows full copying for personal use (no clipping limit restrictions) and format shifting for personal use - which I take to include TTS. So I think it is ok to remove, or increase, the clipping limit from DRM-free Kindle ebooks (removing TTS is probably allowed on all ebooks).