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I knew this. I think many people do. We just accept it and I've never lost a book.
Yep. And that is why drm or whatever it's called sucks.Digital rights management, is it?
What happens if you download books onto your PC and then send them to your kindle?
From amazon? Still DRMed, unless you strip the DRM, I believe.I understand it's possible to do that, but I wouldn't have a clue how.
The DRM debate was always a hugely talked about subject in the zoo, back in the day.
I do understand the lincense to view thing, but the we can remove without explaining ourselves thing is way out order. You should always have to explain and justify such actions.
I think there was more to it at the time. She contravened her part of the agreement by registering as if she lived in the UK but buying in Norway using a friend's address. They allow the occasional download on holiday - wasn't the problem the licence regulations?
If Amazon ever started playing silly buggers, then someone would come up with a program to strip the DRM from the Amazon files.I doubt if Amazon would be so daft.
Probably the best thing for the paranoid would be to copy all their Ebooks into something like Calibre.
Calibre is free, multi-platform, and an excellent way to back up your kindle books. :) But do it *before* Amazon locks you out!As for stripping the nasty DRM off, of course it can be done - google is your friend there. :)
I'm not a fan of DRM in any shape or form. Perhaps you can tell!
I've got calibre but no idea how to back up my books.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've got calibre but no idea how to back up my books."Just plug your kindle into the computer usb with calibre running and it should auto-detect your kindle, then just copy books from kindle to calibre. (I think it is under one of the kindle-specific icons that appear when the kindle is connected.
That'd only work for the books actually on my kindle, yes?Cuz I've got hundreds that are just in the cloud.
Hundreds.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "That'd only work for the books actually on my kindle, yes?Cuz I've got hundreds that are just in the cloud.
Hundreds."
Don't you mean Thousands
Um yes. Thousands.Only a couple thousand though. Ish.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "That'd only work for the books actually on my kindle, yes?Cuz I've got hundreds that are just in the cloud.
Hundreds."
Do a raindance.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "That'd only work for the books actually on my kindle, yes?Cuz I've got hundreds that are just in the cloud.
Hundreds."
Yeah, they've gotta be on your Kindle. You can do it in batches though.
Batches? Batches?We don't need no steekin' batches!
That story has been doing the rounds since last year.
Some of the book review sites I've been looking at require DRM to be deselected by the author/publisher, or they will not review the book at all.
I wonder if those review sites are bunging the books onto pirate bay or something.Dorm shouldn't matter to them, you'd think.
Personally I'd rather have DRM on my books. I can understand why people don't like it, but really with, for example Kindle you can have the book on up to 5 devices, and really is anyone going to need more than that.That story about the 'renting' kindle books has been about for a while.
Actually, you can have most books on unlimited devices. The publisher sets how many devices. I think most set it to unlimited these days.
A.L. wrote: "Personally I'd rather have DRM on my books. I can understand why people don't like it, but really with, for example Kindle you can have the book on up to 5 devices, and really is anyone going to ne..."I have 7. 8 if you include cloud reader. By choosing DRM, all you are doing is inconveniencing me (not a lot, cos I'll just rip the DRM off). You are not doing a single thing towards preventing your book being pirated.
Tim wrote: "I have 7. 8 if you include cloud reader. By choosing DRM, all you are doing is inconveniencing me (not a lot, cos I'll just rip the DRM off). You are not doing a single thing towards preventing your book being pirated."The more awkward, irritating and intrusive the DRM type measures become the more likely it is to drive people towards piracy, rather than away from it, just to avoid having to deal with the hassles of the DRM itself.
I don't know of a single effective thing one can do to prevent piracy. Except not ever uploading your MS to the internet, perhaps.Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. DRM is just so utterly, utterly pointless.
A.L. wrote: "Personally I'd rather have DRM on my books. I can understand why people don't like it, but really with, for example Kindle you can have the book on up to 5 devices, and really is anyone going to ne..."i have me, my mother, my aunt, my mothers best friend, my father and now my brother on MY ACCOUNT. if everyone wants to read the same book (which is unlikely but its been known to happen) i always come across problems with limits. Weirdly enough its generally on the crime books my aunt buys :S
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