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by shadowprofile77 2310 days ago
Calibre. Convert those books to DRM-free formats asap and you're good to go. They become completely yours. I do it by default for all my Amazon kindle format purchases. It's "forbidden" but if I paid near physical book retail pricing for it, as far as i'm concerned, that copy of digital content deserves to be mine.
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I was unable to do this for any recent purchase. Calibre could strip DRM only from very old books, like 7-10 years old.
I had this same problem and what worked for me was to download an old version of Kindle for PC, regardless of the age of the books. I think version 1.17 works. Have copies download to it and then try the Calibre conversion again.
This is why pirating is alive and popular, because it makes people's lives convenient, while the real sellers do many things to make people's lives difficult. You as a buyer are expected to bend and give in to their way of usage and their restrictions.