Amazon and DRM changes

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by innocenat

Not yet. Kobo stopped allowing Japanese users to download .acsm file last year. Who knows what's next.

https://old.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...n_disappeared/

Well that's slightly alarming.

[jonathan2022]

That's from a year ago from date data. Makes it worse. Not good times ahead

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JBaby

Facts! macOS even has built in backup software and people don’t use it. That’s literally the bare minimum. I don’t get it. It could never be me. I’m backed up to 3 different places with 1 of them being off-site. File syncing services don’t count unless the backup option is purchased imo.

It'll never happen to me! That seems to be attitude I find with most people when trying to convince them that they need to backup their data. It takes too much time is another favourite excuse.

I do have a backup system in place and I also test the backups on a regular basis. An end result of spending too many years in IT where I dealt with too many people who lost pretty much everything due to not having any backups or never testing to make sure that the backups were working.

[odamizu]

Originally Posted by jhowell

... I may be mistaken, but I have seen indications that the same restriction may also be coming to older e-ink Kindle models sometime soon. I sure hope that I am wrong about that.

Wait, do you mean older eink Kindles won't be able to download books at all? or won't be able to download new books published after April 22?

Do you think this will affect all Kindles no longer receiving firmware updates?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by odamizu

Wait, do you mean older eink Kindles won't be able to download books at all? or won't be able to download new books published after April 22?
Do you think this will affect all Kindles no longer receiving firmware updates?

The date will likely not be the April 22 cutoff for older K4PC installs or the older K4A installs cutoff of May 26 but the rumour is that Amazon will remove older eInk Kindles from being able to sync new books at some point in the fall (the dates mentioned seem to be random). So far, these rumours seem to lack any corroboration but given Amazon's pattern of behaviour, I would not be surprised to see owners of older Kindles getting an email that their devices will no longer to be able to download ebooks from Amazon with a cutoff date.

[odamizu]

Originally Posted by DNSB

... the rumour is that Amazon will remove older eInk Kindles from being able to sync new books at some point in the fall (the dates mentioned seem to be random). So far, these rumours seem to lack any corroboration but given Amazon's pattern of behaviour, I would not be surprised to see owners of older Kindles getting an email that their devices will no longer to be able to download ebooks from Amazon with a cutoff date.

Where are you seeing these rumors?

I guess I'll hold off on trying to put a new battery in my old K4BNT. And now I'm wondering if any of my Kindles will be able to sync if these rumors are true (in addition to a K4BNT, I have a Voyage and an original/8th gen Oasis).

[JBaby]

Originally Posted by DNSB

It'll never happen to me! That seems to be attitude I find with most people when trying to convince them that they need to backup their data. It takes too much time is another favourite excuse.

I do have a backup system in place and I also test the backups on a regular basis. An end result of spending too many years in IT where I dealt with too many people who lost pretty much everything due to not having any backups or never testing to make sure that the backups were working.

Yes! And I’ll never understand when people say it takes too much time. What are they doing that it’d be a process they’d have to initiate themselves every time? Only one of my 3 backups is a manual process and that’s because I keep it on a thumb drive that stays with my Uncle. He brings it to me whenever he knows he’s gonna come over and stay awhile. It’s my least up to date backup, but I think some backup is better than no backup.

Yeah I was taught to test my backups too. I do so often. We can’t get people to backup so there’s no way in hell they’d ever test their backups if they had them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The date will likely not be the April 22 cutoff for older K4PC installs or the older K4A installs cutoff of May 26 but the rumour is that Amazon will remove older eInk Kindles from being able to sync new books at some point in the fall (the dates mentioned seem to be random). So far, these rumours seem to lack any corroboration but given Amazon's pattern of behaviour, I would not be surprised to see owners of older Kindles getting an email that their devices will no longer to be able to download ebooks from Amazon with a cutoff date.

I think that would easily piss off a lot of Kindle owners.

Do you think this would also apply to the PW3 since that no longer gets firmware updates?

[nickpheas]

I apologise for asking what is probably an often answered question, I have looked about and I find a lot of old answers, which will no longer be useful with version changes.

I would like to DeDRM my Kindle books. I have installed the plugin, I have downloaded the PC Kindle app, I have signed into it. Works.

Configuring the DeDRM plugin though...

I get to the screen to add the key and Calibre is not presenting me anything. The green plus tells me "The default encryption key for Kindle on Mac/PC could not be found". The "Import Existing Keyfiles" brings up a file dialog, but I have no idea what a key file looks like, or where it might be found.

Running Calibre 7.26 (no objection to updating to 8.3.0, just haven't gotten round to it - the notes didn't suggest it would significantly help me).
DeDRM is 7.2.1
Kindle App is 2.7.1

Any pointers would be gratefully received.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think that would easily piss off a lot of Kindle owners.

Based on what JBaby said, most won't care.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Based on what JBaby said, most won't care.

They care, because that would mean they can no longer read newer books on their Kindles. They might not care about DRM removal, but I think they would care about reading their books.

We don't know how many people still read on older models, though.

[JSWolf]

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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

They care, because that would mean they can no longer read newer books on their Kindles. They might not care about DRM removal, but I think they would care about reading their books.

We don't know how many people still read on older models, though.

And we don't know Amazon's definition of older models. If it means no longer getting new firmware updates, then that means the PW3 would be toast and a lot have the PW3.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

They care, because that would mean they can no longer read newer books on their Kindles. They might not care about DRM removal, but I think they would care about reading their books.

We don't know how many people still read on older models, though.

Oh right, didnt really think of that. I hope that if it does happen that affected not just buy a new Kindle. (I doubt.)

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by nickpheas

Thanks all. Have you a link to the deDRM 10.0.9? I thought I'd got the latest version from gitHub, but plainly not.

The link:
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...lease/releases