I love Amazon.
Their website makes it so easy to look up books for Anna's Archive.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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My kindle only knows about library books.
I have five published books, all without drm. Amazon better not put that shit ON my books. It's not there for a reason; I want people to share.
I mean, this is how you get me to stop buying Kindle books.
What do you mean buy kindle books
This entire thing has been made needlessly complicated. Easy fix though.
- Get whatever ebook you want.
- Borrow some code from GitHub and teach a raspberry pi with a camera and a few servos to snap pictures of pages, turn the pages, snap again into a PDF.
- A script then parses all the images and OCRs them for the final PDF.
- You now own a backup of your DRM book, which you own forever. Pretty sure this is actually legal under DMCA since you are taking a backup of something you allegedly own. The encryption circumvention is irrelevant.
- now, break the law and throw the PDF on the internet to everyone. Go little bot! Go go go!
The encryption circumvention is irrelevant.
Oh you sweet summer child, judges will bend over backwards to slap people with multi-decade-to-life charges for 'hacking,' even if the 'hacking' is just the rightsholder accidentally presenting data to you.
To be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven't actually circumvented DRM. That means it's a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.
You didn't circumvent it by breaking the encryption, but I'd say you still circumvented it.
Bad corporate behaviour is a political problem.
Here we are talking about technological solutions for political problems. Why?
Why are people "buying" DRM infested books? They don't own anything. "Their" books can be taken away at the whim of the seller. Their rights can change with a change to the EULA. There are other legal ways to use e-readers (not Kindles) that let you keep and back up what you buy.
Why are people doing X stupid thing that makes rich people richer at their own expense?
It's the herding and conditioning. The sheeple have not woken up.
So many things make so much more sense when we realize this.
I need to root my Kindle...
Might be too late. Winterbreak hasn't worked since 5.18.1 and the latest firmware is 5.18.5. If you've been updating your firmware normally, jailbreak has been unviable since around April or May, at least for the 11th and 12th gen devices.
I don't know why people buy an stuff like this and get surprised when this happens.
Plenty of other electronics that you have full control over.
I am honestly surprised it took this long! Kindle has been around a long time and it's not like Amazon was any less evil back then. It makes me wonder if the competition has been starting to make them nervous!
I feel like nothing is impossible.
amazon: finally we defeated piracy
one kid with a computer: snickers
Why not just remove the Amazon from the ebooks?
I will never, ever purchase a book I can't remove the DRM from.
And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.
Exactly this. As an idiot I purchase DRM music when Microsoft had its own music store. Some years later they closed it and there was no way to validate music keys.
But thankfully I still have an old Roxio9( I think) CD, and back then Roxio didn't know what DRM was and would take the mp3 and burn it to DVD anyway, bypassing the key check, then I would just rip it back off the DVD...DRM is useless
For real.
When I still had Netflix and Disney+ I'd want to watch a show on my PC, but I'd just get black screen with only audio, because something about my setup the DRM didn't like. (Possibly that I have USB displaylink monitors.)
So I had to watch on another device.
DRM isn't stopping content being ripped. It's just making life a pain for paying customers.
I couldn't get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.
Offering a clean, ad free, usable storefront to purchase media would do more to prevent piracy than anything.
But corpos dont like that.
Of course. It's all about control. They see users as property, an object to be sold and traded.
Do not ever allow yourselves to be disrespected like this.
Try explaining any of this to my friends lol. Obsessed with Google, the tok, xitter, and shitty data stealing llms. Disgusting garbage.
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Yarrrrrr
Remember to pay your local pirate.
So they encrypt it via keys they download to protected storage. I hope their market share will tank after a few public outrages. Make sure you're not one of the victims.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/
- https://openlibrary.org/
- https://www.planetebook.com/
- https://archive.org/
- https://www.smashwords.com/
- https://books.google.com/
- https://www.freetechbooks.com/
- https://www.getfreebooks.com/
- https://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
- https://www.goodreads.com/
- https://www.oreilly.com/ (trial)
- https://annas-archive.org/
- https://pdfcoffee.com/
- https://singlelogin.re/
- https://www.ereaderiq.com/freebies/
- https://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/free-ebooks
- https://digilibraries.com/
- https://www.overdrive.com/
- https://manybooks.net/
there’s so many others and of course torrents
Shoutout to Anna.
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