I just bought two kindle books that were only available as ebooks and I didn't realize that it has been made so difficult to download them. Everything I search comes up with "download them before Feb. 25th!"

Has anyone got a work around for this? I have no desire to use the kindle app to read them and I HATE that I don't own these books to do as I please.

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[–] HiDiddlyDoodlyHo@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can download an old version of the Kindle desktop app (for Windows) and download the books there, though I'm not sure how long that feature will be available if Amazon turns it off server-side. I've personally decided not to buy Kindle books anymore due to their anti-consumer DRM and ability to revoke my books at any time, but I'm also not sure who does a better job.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

Lots of places do a better job providing DRM free or DRM Lite ebooks (Chicago press only ties your name to the files so you'd have to doxx yourself to share it, but you can share it), but the sheer library of self published books on Amazon is hard to find.

There's an author I've become good friends with who I pay him (in coffee) for his books because I disagree with giving Amazon a cent. But he noted that's just where the masses are still and it's hard to break that momentum.