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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by wolco on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:29AM (#19571353)
Piracy is a good option for popular titles and for more smaller titles usually you can get an epub version outside of the amazon store so buying is still a good option.
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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by NoGravitas on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:43AM (#19571521)
A good option, but unfortunately technical, is to buy ebooks and strip the DRM so that you can keep them outside of the store's ecosystem, back them up, read them in your choice of reader, etc. This is also useful for library ebooks.
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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by wlll on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:40AM (#19571487)
I once looked into cracking the DRM on Amazon ebooks (that I had bought legitimately). It worked, but was a PITA.
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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by ozzyman700 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:04AM (#19572399)
No idea what you tried but I use the deDRM plugin in Calibre and it is very easy. If gen lib doesn't have the mobi, epub, or pdf I just buy it on amazon, and strip the drm so i can send it directly to my friends.
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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by wlll on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:14AM (#19572537)
It was using Calibre. I may have different ideas about what is a PITA to you though. Whatever, the effort involved, + my other points didn't move the needle far enough for me to choose books.
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