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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by drakonka on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:20PM (#30951024)
Then more applicable advice seems like it could've been "Everyone should go to their Kindle library and download their ebooks as soon as they purchase them."
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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by AlchemistCamp on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:28PM (#30951973)
Ironically, Amazon has previously deleted copies of 1984 their customers had already downloaded to their kindles and other devices.

https://theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-kindle...

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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by drakonka on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:26AM (#30953909)
I don't mean downloading to Kindle, but actually downloading the book file to your machine where it is no longer at Amazon's mercy. If the book has DRM Calibre takes care of that, it's how many people transfer Amazon bought books to other ereaders.
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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by AlchemistCamp on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:35AM (#30955052)
I'm not familiar with Calibre but AFIK, all kindle books have DRM.
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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by drakonka on Friday April 08, 2022 @07:23AM (#30955627)
It is a setting the author chooses when publishing their book through KDP, and some authors choose not to enable it. Pretty sure it is enabled by default though.
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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by exfascist on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:09PM (#30951429)
IIRC they can remove downloaded books. Better advice is "no non-free software in the house" and "mind your external dependencies" but that's a bit too extreme for most people.
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Re:Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about by drakonka on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:28AM (#30953916)
They can remove books you download to your Kindle ereader, but they can't remove book files you download to your actual PC from the Kindle library.
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