How can I move a book I purchased a couple years ago from Amazon to my Kobo Clara. I absolutely refuse to pay for it a second time. I checked Anna's and it's not listed. I should check again though. Is their a way to rip it from Amazon? Also fuck Amazon.

Is their drm embedded with my personal information? I.e. if I get a copy of the drm book and do a shit job on Calibre, then upload to Anna's, am I personally liable?

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[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do you have access to an old kindle device? That makes it pretty easy with Calibre and the noDRM plugin.

It was easier when you could download it to your computer, but Amazon disabled that last year because so many people were removing the DRM.

[–] DSN9@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So if it's not sitting on a kindle, I have zero access to the file? What did I pay for then

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Nothing. That's the trick people are slowly starting to become aware of.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

According to the terms, when you purchase a Kindle e-book, you are buying a license to access the content rather than owning the book outright. And the only reason they made it explicit is CA law AB 2426. So you can “access” it on any device that can display their content, be it an app or hardware device, but you can’t possess it via a download for example. (I find this all to be bullshit, I’m just stating Amazon’s position on the topic)

https://www.ereadersforum.com/threads/amazon-clarifies-kindle-e-book-purchases-youre-licensing-not-owning.4831/

This is a big part of why I have a kobo, the files are easy to scrub of the DRM but I’m still getting an easy way to throw money at creators I value.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you happen to know if those shitty terms are also in Google Books? My sister has a lot of books there, and when I tried to warn her that those books might suddenly disappear: "But no, I have them in my account..." 🤷

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t have an easy answer. Amazon was the 1 ton gorilla in the room so that was the one I was familiar with, but I will try to update this comment as I find information out.

Kobo: Seems like it’s yours to keep without resale or transfer rights. (https://download.kobobooks.com/learnmore/kobo1_pdf/Kobo_eReader_Terms_of_Use.pdf)

Google: Yours to keep provided the authorized agent and Google themselves maintain rights to provide it. (https://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/tos.html)

B&N Nook: seems to be more in line with Amazon (https://www.nook.com/services/cms/doc/us/en_us/legal/nook-store-terms.html#ItemsPurchases)

Smashwords: seems more like ownership without transferability. (https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos)

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, I didn't expect such a torough answer, thank you very much! 😊 I'll try to convince my sister to save all the books somewhere else, but I don't have much hope. --👂️😐️👂️-->