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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. (lithub.com)

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[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I download books from my library to my kindle. It goes through Amazon though, so I assume I am also impacted by this BS.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

It shouldn’t. The DRM is on the Amazon book file format. The books I get from my library are usually epub format.

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