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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
submitted 2 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 165 points 2 months ago (8 children)
  1. https://www.gutenberg.org/
  2. https://openlibrary.org/
  3. https://www.planetebook.com/
  4. https://archive.org/
  5. https://www.smashwords.com/
  6. https://books.google.com/
  7. https://www.freetechbooks.com/
  8. https://www.getfreebooks.com/
  9. https://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
  10. https://www.goodreads.com/
  11. https://www.oreilly.com/ (trial)
  12. https://annas-archive.org/
  13. https://pdfcoffee.com/
  14. https://singlelogin.re/
  15. https://www.ereaderiq.com/freebies/
  16. https://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/free-ebooks
  17. https://digilibraries.com/
  18. https://www.overdrive.com/
  19. https://manybooks.net/

there’s so many others and of course torrents

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is remarkable how many books available for free on Gutenberg are sold in the same format on Amazon (it'd be one thing if they were special editions, new translations etc, but they're the same!)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 months ago

People out to make a quick buck are banking on suckers not knowing about Project Gutenberg, or failing to check it, or not wanting to do a couple of extra steps to get something onto their Kindle.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Check out standard ebooks. They take public domain books and "clean" them up with really good typesetting, spelling fixes, and other things. All free too

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Standard is fantastic! The books are better quality than what they charge for on “marketplaces” and can be read for free or downloaded wholesale for a song. Add to that they host an opds catologue that fbreader can browse and you have incredibly convenient public domain books right to the ereader.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shoutout to Anna.

[–] orwellianlocksmith@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you noticed that the download interface page for Anna's archive has suddenly changed? I can't figure it out!

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have not but I believe you.

What URL are you using?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can also use Book Bounty to integrate LibGen support into Readarr. It’s a workaround for one of Readarr’s biggest weaknesses, as torrents historically aren’t great for ebooks.

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't readarr get discontinued a few weeks ago?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

It was officially unsupported, but it still works just fine if you use a third-party metadata provider. There haven’t been any breaking changes on the backend, so (unless sites change things) it will continue to work fine.

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://libbyapp.com/

Assuming you have a card from a participating library.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Every time I go to checkout a book on Libby it's like 6-10 weeks' wait. If I put a hold on it then I'm just not in a place to read/listen at that time and then I feel bad for hogging it instead.

Better to just pirate or buy from a non-DRM distributor.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The best books are on IRC.

[–] Iamaquantummechanic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Isn't goodreads owned by Amazon?

[–] orwellianlocksmith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Anyone else notice that the download interface page for Anna's archive has suddenly changed? I can't figure it out.