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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by kerkeslager on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:23PM (#20881572)
> Unpacking digital book formats is pretty straightforward with Calibre and similar tools.

It wasn't the last time I tried it, but I'd be happy to hear if this has changed.

I don't own a Kindle, which some people are saying is required for the Calibre method, which might have been the issue I had in the past.

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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:11PM (#20882297)
That's a fair caution. Calibre used to work well with Kindle formats, though I've heard of issues more recently.

I do a lot of dump-to-markdown then re-tag to preferred formats, largely using Pandoc. That's more intensive, but highly effective.

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Re:DRM Broke Its Promise by jpindar on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:59AM (#20886690)
It works for me. What you do is download the Kindle file format from "Manage Your Content and Devices","Actions", "Download & transfer via USB". This gives you a different format than the files sent directly to a Kindle, and the DeDRM plugin for Calibre unlocks these.
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