Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)
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Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)
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#2Some of the DRM failures are real: kindle DRM updates and some forms don't strip in calibre IIRC. But that aside, this is all pretty much what I do.
I feel uncomfortable about the legalities but I do not like the social contact being written in this way, against any consumer interest and without discussion.
Buying books is important. Authors deserve their pay. DRM is like book cancer.
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#3The ones that fail are the new encryption.
To remove that you need another add on and the serial from the kindle as key
Don’t have the name of it with me now sorry
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#4Or instead of messing with propertiary programs one could set up an rsync job to pull the books from the actual device. DeDRM still required, btw.
But do humans really requires a guide how to backup stuff from a frickin' mass storage device?
I hate this like the 1000 different "10 hammock mistakes" video on youtube, where all of them telling the same things.
Ah, she is member of "Amazon Associates" program so this article is just a bs for more clicks.
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#5The ones that fail are the new encryption. To remove that you need another add on and the serial from the kindle as key Don’t have the name of it with me now sorry
If I remember correctly the process is described in the README of the DeDRM plugin that can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/... (and I am talking about the README file inside the zip you download there).
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#6Or instead of messing with propertiary programs one could set up an rsync job to pull the books from the actual device. DeDRM still required, btw. But do humans really requires a guide how to backup stuff from a frickin' mass storage device? I hate this like the 1000 different "10 hammock mistakes" video on youtube, where all of them telling the same things. Ah, she is member of "Amazon Associates" program so this ar…
She didn't have a phsyical kindle device available.
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#7How legal is stripping the DRM like this? Can one get in trouble for this?
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#8Why is this article so high up? It's a blog post by an Amazon associate who fails at following basic instructions (dedrm tells you how to remove the new DRM and how to do it without a physical device)
"hacker news"
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#9Calibre is great, if you configure it properly.
By default, converting books to another format will change the layout! Destroying the original formatting by default is unacceptable behaviour to be honest, so user beware.
For Kindle, I suggest using the KindleUnpack plugin instead; which can extract the EPUB file embedded in the AZW/KF8 format file losslessly for use with EPUB based readers without having to worry about Calibre's conversion messing up the formatting.
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#102018