Ritalin Invitees on Nostr: I hear that Amazon is removing the ability to download books you purchase for Kindle, ...
I hear that Amazon is removing the ability to download books you purchase for Kindle, and they're already heavily DRMed. This is where you might expect me to say that you can download them and remove the DRM via such and such a method, but I won't. If you already purchased the books, you can go to Anna's Archive at
https://annas-archive.se/ and download them from there. It's simpler, it's straightforward, it's just as legal (which is to say, they're both illegal), and you've already purchased the book.
I will not recommend book piracy. What you do with this information is your business. If you want to learn more about piracy, I'm happy to chat hypothetically about complicating factors, but if you're stuck with a bunch of books that Amazon has told you you don't actually own even though you paid for them, obtaining a copy of those books which you do actually own isn't piracy. I will die on that particular hill, so please don't make me.
Please buy the books you enjoy so that authors can get paid, but beyond that, I give not the most tarnished of brass-plated fucks.
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