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Re:Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her... by input_sh on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:17AM (#24685637)
Kindle's DRM is breakable for at least half a decade now using this calibre plugin: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

I find it more convenient to break it than DRM-protected ePub files sold elsewhere (Barnes and Noble, Kobo, etc.).

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Re:Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her... by izacus on Monday October 05, 2020 @07:47AM (#24686762)
Except that the new Kindle DRM is very hard to remove and this plugin won't work anymore - it's a constant arms race where us customers are always the losers.
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Re:Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her... by imgabe on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:10AM (#24686953)
It's possible, if a little annoying. In your account settings, Amazon offers the ability to download an e-book to transfer via USB. This gets you a version that you can import into Calibre and process with DeDRM.
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