[freshchilled]

> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre

I'd say this is the case for Amazon as well, if you have an actual Kindle. I was able to convert my whole library to standard epubs last weekend using Calibre.

[chimeracoder]

Only until Feb 26th. After that they will be permanently locked.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/download-kindle-books-to-comput...

[criddell]

You’re lucky. There are now some KFX protected files that the DeDRM plugins don’t work against. I expect it to get tougher and tougher going forward.

[miki123211]

I suspect it won't end up mattering too much for most people anyway.

Eventually, we'll just end up in the same situation as we are now with video DRM; DRM being hard enough to bypass that the methods of doing so will be closely guarded scene secrets, but the output of those methods will hit Z-lib / LibGen / AnnasArchive / all the usual places.

The thing with books is that they're small by todays bandwidth and disk capacity standards, so it's really hard to stop their proliferation.

[themadturk]

This is one of the reasons I ditched Amazon for Kobo a couple of years ago: not only was it getting harder to strip DRM (which I did regularly), but harder to get non-Kindle books onto the device. My Kobo Clara B&W is comparable to a Paperwhite, and I don't miss Amazon or Kindle at all.

[rufus_foreman]

How were you able to do that? You can still download to USB but that is going away. I'm not aware of any way to convert the files on a recent Kindle to epub, does that exist?

[mfashby]

Yeah I believe calibre can pull the files from the kindle as well as push to it. But I've only got an old kindle not a new one.