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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[-] UncleJosh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I've been downloading my books but most of them are DRM so I can't read them on anything BUT a Kindle. I've been thinking about getting another e-reader but I fear I'm trapped.

[-] yulian@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

Just look up Kindle DeDRM, it is easy enough to remove that stuff and then even convert them to epub

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