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You’ve still got a couple days to download (DRM’d) copies of the books before they remove that option!

I just finished importing mine in Calibre and converting them all to epub

Why bother? Just download them off of LibGen, and save it on your hard drive. If you have bought them on Amazon, you have already paid off your debt metaphorically and literally

Maybe it does not matter, but I paid for _that_ file dammit. I only go to pirate stuff I already paid for if I somehow get locked out of the purchase.

by that time, it could be too late.

I don't know the details of the law, but I'm morally 100% OK with that. If I bought a copy of a book, I feel completely justified in reading it in whatever format's convenient for me. By analogy if I buy a DVD, I might rip it and watch it on my computer. I don't draw a moral distinction between ripping a copy of that DVD and downloading a ripped copy of it: the end result is a .mov file on my hard drive. Well, same with physical books and epubs. I could morally (and I'm pretty sure legally) scan and OCR that book myself as long as I don't distribute copies of it, so downloading seems to me to be just skipping the labor step in the middle.

How?

here ya go: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/how-to-bulk-download-kind...

I did this just yesterday… the calibre reader is a hot mess but getting and decoding the books was a breeze

Note that this method is only going to work for four more days! I imagine that soon this will only be possible via jailbreaking, which is always a PITA

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