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Old 02-14-2025, 06:20 AM   #151
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Yes, I meant alpha, thanks. I have updated my post.
The beta DeDRM 10.0.9 is fine. If you're using the Kindle for Android method, then you'll need the alpha.
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Old 02-14-2025, 07:16 AM   #152
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Kobo price matches with Amazon, you get credit back.
Not only do you get a price match:
  • You also get 10% of the cheaper seller's price
  • You can buy through Rakuten Kobo or other kickback sites and get a small percentage back
  • Kobo has recurring gift card sales with a bonus which amounts to a significant savings if used for your own purchases. The current gc card sale of a $10 bonus on a $60 purchase amounts to a 14% discount and it applies to everything including Big Five books.

In fact, if they both sell the book, Kobo is always cheaper as a result.

I resisted price-matching for years as it didn't seem worth the bother and I was store-agnostic. But I stopped buying Kindle books in 2023 when they nerfed their bonus program and it's a trivial process. And given that the books are cheaper as a result....

I understand that some people direct download (I do). I also know that there are books only sold at Amazon. But the saving-money aspect now that books will be tied to a Kindle device or app is a nice come-on to jump ship.
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Old 02-14-2025, 07:29 AM   #153
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Not only do you get a price match:
  • You also get 10% of the cheaper seller's price
  • You can buy through Rakuten Kobo or other kickback sites and get a small percentage back
  • Kobo has recurring gift card sales with a bonus which amounts to a significant savings if used for your own purchases. The current gc card sale of a $10 bonus on a $60 purchase amounts to a 14% discount and it applies to everything including Big Five books.
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Isn't it 10% off the difference between Kobo's price and the cheaper price?
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Old 02-14-2025, 07:32 AM   #154
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Isn't it 10% off the difference between Kobo's price and the cheaper price?
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Old 02-14-2025, 07:47 AM   #155
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As I have posted in some other threads we come back to whether or not Amazon will get round to rendering all Kindles prior to K7 obsolete. That is, unable to download books at all because they don't support kfx and will not be updated. There are millions of devices out there that this would affect and customer pushback would not be trivial. However unless they do that there will be a route to removing DRM that remains unplugged and Amazon will have to endure what ever flack they get from Publishers.
It's nothing to do with publishers. After all, Adobe DRM, which the epub stores use, is much simpler to remove than Amazon DRM. This is Amazon wanting to completely shut you in, so that they could data mine you.
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I'm seeing February 25 message as well.
I've been seeing February 26.
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PW 2 here in US. No message this morning, got the message a few minutes ago. All my books (over 5000) were downloaded when purchased, so no worries. Just hoping I can xfr from PW 2 into Calibre after Feb 26.
What you should do it go through your Kindle library on Amazon and update any that have updates available and download those.
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Amazon has announced a hardware related event at 10AM ET on February 26, the same day as the Download and Transfer cutoff. Panos Panay, their new head of hardware development who came to Amazon from Microsoft, is supposed to be there to show off new products. Speculation is that they relate to Alexa.

However his department is also responsible for Kindles. There may also be news on that front, and I don't mean good news.
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That would cut off a substantial part of their customer base, I think. There are lots of folks still using their Paperwhite 3 and 4, their Oasis 3, or even the Voyage.
All that word means is the K1, K2, DX, & DXG are no longer supported and won't be able to get eBooks.

So Amazon can finally do away with Mobi and there will no longer be any Mobi only Kindles that can get eBooks.
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I was wondering the same thing. I have an old K4BNT with an aging battery that I've kept around just in case.

I was thinking of attempting to replace the battery (do you really need the hair dryer per the how-to video???), but I don't want to go to all that trouble and expense if Amazon is going to pull support for it in near future.
It's just the Kindles without WiFi that won't be able to get any eBooks.
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The beta DeDRM 10.0.9 is fine. If you're using the Kindle for Android method, then you'll need the alpha.
No matter your use case, go for the Alpha just to be safe.

Current Alpha release (until the code is updated)

https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...875d5ed3c309a9
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Amazon has announced a hardware related event at 10AM ET on February 26, the same day as the Download and Transfer cutoff. Panos Panay, their new head of hardware development who came to Amazon from Microsoft, is supposed to be there to show off new products. Speculation is that they relate to Alexa.

However his department is also responsible for Kindles. There may also be news on that front, and I don't mean good news.
Is there a way we can see the announcement such as on YT?
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Amazon has announced a hardware related event at 10AM ET on February 26, the same day as the Download and Transfer cutoff. Panos Panay, their new head of hardware development who came to Amazon from Microsoft, is supposed to be there to show off new products. Speculation is that they relate to Alexa.

However his department is also responsible for Kindles. There may also be news on that front, and I don't mean good news.
They might just simply end eink kindles, Mac app & Windows app. Only have iOS and Android apps. The Fire is basically Android, so a version of the Android app. Exactly the sort of thing beancounters and an ex Microsoft person would like.

There is nothing compelling new that can do with eink, and for Amazon, control is important. The Alexa division is under pressure to save money.
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Is there a way we can see the announcement such as on YT?
They sent invitations to the event to various news agencies. As far as I know there has not been a live stream announced.

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They might just simply end eink kindles, Mac app & Windows app.
That is my worry. (More about Kindles than the apps.)
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