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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by unethical_ban on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:13AM (#32426964)
Back in 2014, I bought a nook, returned it. I bought a kobo, returned it. I bought a Kindle voyage that I love to this day.

#1 reason: out of those three, Kindle is or was the only ebook vendor I could crack with DeDRM and actually own my books. With Kindle for PC 1.17, I can still pull down my books and import them to my Calibre library for safe keeping.

Can one DeDRM their Nook or Kobo files in 2022?

PS: Kobo typography was noticably worse than Kindle in 2014. Again, it may have changed.

PPS: I wish the symmetrical origami cover of the voyage was more used. I lay in bed and flip from side to side while reading. A book like cover or one that just is meant for vertical support is not sufficient for my use case.

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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by filmgirlcw on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:36AM (#32427341)
If you have an Eink Kindle, you don’t even need to use the Kindle desktop app to download the book files to use with DeDRM and Calibre. I personally find using the desktop app more of a PITA than just downloading the files, but YMMV.
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