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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by TillE on Monday February 03, 2014 @07:51PM (#7174718)
The nice thing about Amazon's Kindle DRM is that it's fairly easy to crack. It presumably satisfies publishers who insist on continuing with this cargo cult charade (which really should have ended after the music industry accepted DRM-free sales), and it allows educated consumers to strip the DRM if they really need to.

It's not an optimal solution, but it's mostly OK.

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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by toomuchtodo on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:22PM (#7174868)
I'd pay for a tool that I could feed in my Amazon credentials and it would iterate through the hundreds of eBooks I've purchased, download them, crack them, and then back them up to an S3 bucket.
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by hyperbovine on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:40PM (#7174936)
Judging from your user name your time might be worth more than mine, but some scripting + Calibre could do this for you with not much effort on your part.
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by tomrod on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:59PM (#7175006)
I've not had success using Calibre on Linux, even for backup purposes.
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:39PM (#7180097)
You were right. Took about ~30 minutes. Thank you!
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by chimeracoder on Monday February 03, 2014 @09:48PM (#7175181)
1) Download all the Kindle books you've owned (either onto your device, or using the desktop reader - I think there is even one on Linux). You can mount a Kindle as an external drive, so you can easily move files to your hard drive even if you have too many to fit onto the Kindle.

2) Use Calibre to unlock the .mobi files, using the serial number (conveniently located under the "Device Settings" or "About this Device" menu - I forget which it's called, but it's a ~16 digit number and very easy to find.

3) Upload to S3

This works on Linux - I assume it works on OS X and Windows too.

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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by protomyth on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:00PM (#7175220)
Wouldn't uploading your cracked books to S3 be a bit of a risk?
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by tbyehl on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:03PM (#7179904)
I use the Send to Kindle app to put the cracked books back on my Kindles.
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by taktiktook on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:47AM (#7176231)
AFAIK all common book DRM types EXCEPT for the adobe type are currently crackable. This is the main reason why I do not buy any adobe DRMed books. First thing after buying a ebook is to decrypt it and keep a copy as a backup. That way i still have it even if amazon or whoever chooses to revert it.
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Re:Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon... by jmelloy on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:01PM (#7174759)
So is the nook DRM.
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