Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by sdh9 on Saturday May 24, 2025 @10:41AM
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It's still "easy" to strip DRM from Amazon books but you need an actual Kindle to do so. If it's something that you would like to do, it might be worth investing in a cheap used Kindle even if you never plan to use it to read.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by diggan on Saturday May 24, 2025 @11:04AM
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I thought they removed that, even with a hardware Kindle? I managed to download all my ebooks via a python script before that, as I've purchased 100s of books via Kindle throughout the years, but seems they've disabled the approach I took at least:
> As of 26th February 2025, Amazon has removed the ability to download backups of your Kindle books. Unfortunately, this means that this tool is no longer functional - https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader
After removing that feature I kind of feel like it'll just be too much of a hassle, so stopped buying books via Kindle. But haven't found any better alternative either to be honest.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by sdh9 on Saturday May 24, 2025 @11:24AM
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That's for downloading files from the website.
You can still use Calibre to remove & decrypt the files via USB from a Kindle.
Re:Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press
by ndsipa_pomu on Saturday May 24, 2025 @10:15AM
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Not ideal, but you could either scrape the browser pages to reproduce the pages without DRM, or even get hold of a physical copy (e.g. from a library) and scan the pages yourself. If you manage to produce a good enough version, don't forget to make a torrent available.
(There's a bunch of physical copies available on eBay)
I guess it's easy to say "Don't buy X from Y", but if it's the only option, what can one individual really do about it, besides just not purchasing it at all or pirating it?