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Re:Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-r... by cbdevidal on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:25AM (#48246768)
It is still possible to remove DRM and export to PDF or epub. Not point-and-click easy, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1q1uza4/successful...

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Re:Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-r... by nosioptar on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:31AM (#48246790)
While Calibre makes it easy, it's even easier to just download a copy someone else has already stripped of DRM.

If publishers/authors want my money, they can release a version without DRM.

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Re:Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-r... by lostlogin on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:54PM (#48250236)
Calibre is a rather painful tool, but seems to remain the best.

Calibre web and calibre web automated downloader remove a fair bit of the clunk.

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Re:Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-r... by steve-atx-7600 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @11:51PM (#48254202)
Yep. Go to yandex, search for book, download ebook, done. I’ll order a hardcover of the book if I liked it. I don’t mind reading on an iPhone (iBooks will open it and even sync it across devices). If I did, I’d use Calibre to load books on a kindle. I did this recently as a test and it worked on the second version ever made of the kindle.
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