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Please don't get too technical. Now that Calibre cannot remove drm from my books on Kindle app, I am unable to download them so I can turn them into pdf on my computer. I never really understood how to work with Calibre to begin with, and now that the Kindle app has gotten more advanced, as of Jan 3rd, they said it wouldn't remove drm anymore. These are my books and I can do whatever I want with them. I want to turn them into epubs or pdfs. Any help? Anybody know a way around this? Or a program that still works?
Because: Pirates. Strip the DRM from that, make it a PDF and you can give that away a million times for free. There's a reason they don't just straight sell PDF's.
Why do you need to "turn them into PDF on my computer"? Serious question.
Because: Pirates. Strip the DRM from that, make it a PDF and you can give that away a million times for free. There's a reason they don't just straight sell PDF's.
Why do you need to "turn them into PDF on my computer"? Serious question.
I want to have them on my computer because these companies and apps are not 100 percent reliable. One day they are here, the next they are gone or stop working for some reason. I want to be able to put them into a power bank or USB or dvd. For storage. I am not going to steal anything that isn't already mine.
I want to have them on my computer because these companies and apps are not 100 percent reliable. One day they are here, the next they are gone or stop working for some reason. I want to be able to put them into a power bank or USB or dvd. For storage. I am not going to steal anything that isn't already mine.
You do know you can install the Kindle app on your computer, and read Kindle books right on there? They don't have to be converted.
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but something different is going on with downloaded books from Amazon to the Kindle.
All of a sudden I've got everything in my Archives, all 850 of them. And I can't remove them from my device after reading or moving to my "reading" section. They just go back into Archives. I don't want all this stuff. Some of the books I don't actually want after reading them; they are rubbish.
One book I bought cannot be downloaded. I'm getting tired of these changes that I didn't ask for and don't know how to work with. Who is there to ask questions of?
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but something different is going on with downloaded books from Amazon to the Kindle.
All of a sudden I've got everything in my Archives, all 850 of them. And I can't remove them from my device after reading or moving to my "reading" section. They just go back into Archives. I don't want all this stuff. Some of the books I don't actually want after reading them; they are rubbish.
One book I bought cannot be downloaded. I'm getting tired of these changes that I didn't ask for and don't know how to work with. Who is there to ask questions of?
You do know you can install the Kindle app on your computer, and read Kindle books right on there? They don't have to be converted.
Yes, I have that. But there was a time when I used to download books to the app, and if I didn't go into my app in about 3 weeks or so, if I went after that time while offline I would have to redownload the book. So it was an inconvenience for me to constantly be redownloading. This happened quite often actually. So instead of relying on them to give me the book over and over again that should already be in the app, I started converting them to epubs and pdfs, after removing the drm. That way I could access MY books whenever I wanted.
It is their own fault that I started doing this. If they hadn't been making my books disappear, forcing me to download over and over, I wouldn't of come to the conclusion that I have to save them to my computer.
But I did, and now I feel a lot better knowing that my property is with Me. I don't trust that Amazon cares enough for their customer that they will not suddenly lock access to books we have bought. There was an article of a woman who bought hundreds of books from them and then they cancelled her account and took her books. Here's the link. amazon itself says people don't own the books they buy from them. https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...eletes-account
Another reason that I don't trust them with MY books is that they occasionally remove content or update them without previous warning. I can try to stop an update, but if they remove it because of whatever reason, there's nothing I can do about that.
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