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In retrospect all the ebooks I bought were a waste of money because I can't get them off Kindle easily, if at all, to digest via an LLM.

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You can (could?) get all of them up until the end of the month when Amazon removes the ability to download them from your amazon.com account page.

There may or may not be easily findable plugins for [popular ebook desktop app] to remove the DRM.

I buy ebooks, remove DRM, and store them on my network storage drive so I can read them on any device I own.

Calibre and DeDRM are the apps you're looking for; DeDRM doesn't include the decryption keys, you'll need to supply your Kindle's serial number or extract the keys from an old version of the Kindle app.

Yeah I did this with all the kindle books I ever bought before switching to a Kobo. Just need to try and get my partner out of the Amazon ecosystem now.

Awhile back I worked with someone who wrote a script to scroll through ebooks he purchased, screenshot each page and then aggregate the screenshots into a single PDF file.

The simplicity of the approach seemed pretty awesome

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