Who Really Owns Your E-Books? Switching from Kindle to Kobo

[JSWolf]

[JSWolf]

Here's another video in a similar sort of topic.

[pdurrant]

It's good that the limitations on ebooks are being more widely spread.

I suspect the author doesn't know that books bought from Kobo are only licensed for the purchaser, and no-one else.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...45#post2766745

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It's good that the limitations on ebooks are being more widely spread.

I suspect the author doesn't know that books bought from Kobo are only licensed for the purchaser, and no-one else.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...45#post2766745

She probably doesn't. But at least she now has more control over her eBooks then she did before.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Here's another video in a similar sort of topic.

This was linked to in the Amazon removes books thread over three weeks ago and discussed. The vlogger's a dope.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=562

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

She probably doesn't. But at least she now has more control over her eBooks then she did before.

Does she though? I can remove drm from my kindle books as easy as from sources that use Adobe drm.

[pdurrant]

She has more control now that she's removed the DRM.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by issybird

This was linked to in the Amazon removes books thread over three weeks ago and discussed. The vlogger's a dope.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=562

Thanks. I actually forgot that the video was posted or I would have posted a link to the post instead of posting the video again.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

Does she though? I can remove drm from my kindle books as easy as from sources that use Adobe drm.

Let's say you don't own a Kindle. You buy a Kindle PW6. So you have the PW6 and maybe the Kindle app on your phone and/or computer. Later on you buy a Kobo and want to read your purchased Kindle eBooks on your Kobo. How do you download your Kindle eBooks such that you can remove the DRM and convert to ePub to read on a Kobo?

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Let's say you don't own a Kindle. You buy a Kindle PW6. So you have the PW6 and maybe the Kindle app on your phone and/or computer. Later on you buy a Kobo and want to read your purchased Kindle eBooks on your Kobo. How do you download your Kindle eBooks such that you can remove the DRM and convert to ePub to read on a Kobo?

I believe there are 2 methods (maybe three), and at least one thread (on this forum) dedicate to discussing removing DRM from Amazon ebook purchases. Sorry, I don't have the link.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Let's say you don't own a Kindle. You buy a Kindle PW6. So you have the PW6 and maybe the Kindle app on your phone and/or computer. Later on you buy a Kobo and want to read your purchased Kindle eBooks on your Kobo. How do you download your Kindle eBooks such that you can remove the DRM and convert to ePub to read on a Kobo?

Uh, you just read on your Kindle, a perfectly serviceable device? That's my go-to method. If there's a pressing reason to use the Kobo, read something else in the meantime? (And perhaps stop buying ebooks for inventory, so you don't have an issue down the line. I'm less good about that. )

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by John F

I believe there are 2 methods (maybe three), and at least one thread (on this forum) dedicate to discussing removing DRM from Amazon ebook purchases. Sorry, I don't have the link.

I know there is the Android method. But is there any other method if you don't have a pre-2024 Kindle registered to your account? The Windows and Mac apps are getting updated such that they are not longer compatible with DeDRM. The PW6 no longer allows D&T. I'm thinking the other two don't as well.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I know there is the Android method. But is there any other method if you don't have a pre-2024 Kindle registered to your account? The Windows and Mac apps are getting updated such that they are not longer compatible with DeDRM. The PW6 no longer allows D&T. I'm thinking the other two don't as well.

Not that long ago I finally got around to retrieving a handful of Kindle books from an ancient moribund account. I downloaded an older version of Kindle for PC to my Windows 11 computer, added the relevant plugin to Calibre, downloaded the books and put them in Calibre. Done. It was a trivial process. I did figure I had better do it while I still could -- but I wouldn't have been brokenhearted if I'd let it go too long, either.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by issybird

Uh, you just read on your Kindle, a perfectly serviceable device? That's my go-to method. If there's a pressing reason to use the Kobo, read something else in the meantime? (And perhaps stop buying ebooks for inventory, so you don't have an issue down the line. I'm less good about that. )

Indeed most people buying Kindle ebooks use an App on a phone or tablet (which includes Amazon Fire, one of the best selling because it's cheap and heavily marketed).

But I'll stop buying ebooks at Amazon if they disable Download and Transfer for my Paperwhite 3, though I have the Kindle app on my phones and tablet.

My TBR pile of PD books is about 5,000 anyway.

Note Amazon claims on the web page when you buy an ebook "You own this" and eventually copyright expires. Also T&C are not always legally enforceable, or economically enforceable.

[gbm]

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This notice is in an ebook purchased from Amazon this week. Following this copyright notice strictly I can not even use it on my kindle.

I own the file not the copyrighted material inside said file. I can do what I will as long as I do not distribute or sell copies of said copyrighted material.

Copyright law--in the USA--allows fair use for more than just book reviews,
bernie

Originally Posted by Quoth

Indeed most people buying Kindle ebooks use an App on a phone or tablet (which includes Amazon Fire, one of the best selling because it's cheap and heavily marketed).

But I'll stop buying ebooks at Amazon if they disable Download and Transfer for my Paperwhite 3, though I have the Kindle app on my phones and tablet.

My TBR pile of PD books is about 5,000 anyway.

Note Amazon claims on the web page when you buy an ebook "You own this" and eventually copyright expires. Also T&C are not always legally enforceable, or economically enforceable.