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Re:Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and back... by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:55AM (#43059410)
Bookshop.org sells ebooks now. There is DRM based on publisher specifications unfortunately. For DRM free books, I ship physical copies for scanning to get a PDF, which is not great unfortunately.

https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

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Re:Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and back... by politelemon on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:56AM (#43060017)
IMO this is worse because the DRM books are limited to their app, and so completely locked away in their control. No possibility of reading on eink devices.
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Re:Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and back... by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:02PM (#43060584)
Depends on how hard it is to strip the DRM. It’s a checkbox to give publishers the warm and fuzzy feeling.
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Re:Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and back... by crtasm on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:05PM (#43060613)
>We are working with Kobo to support Kobo devices later this year.

If that comes together I assume it'll use the standard adobe system and people can free their copies?

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