Move book from Amazon to Kobo device (lemmy.ml)

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How can I move a book I purchased a couple years ago from Amazon to my Kobo Clara. I absolutely refuse to pay for it a second time. I checked Anna's and it's not listed. I should check again though. Is their a way to rip it from Amazon? Also fuck Amazon.

Is their drm embedded with my personal information? I.e. if I get a copy of the drm book and do a shit job on Calibre, then upload to Anna's, am I personally liable?

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[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 days ago

Do you happen to know if those shitty terms are also in Google Books? My sister has a lot of books there, and when I tried to warn her that those books might suddenly disappear: "But no, I have them in my account..." 🤷

[-] JaymesRS@piefed.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don’t have an easy answer. Amazon was the 1 ton gorilla in the room so that was the one I was familiar with, but I will try to update this comment as I find information out.

Kobo: Seems like it’s yours to keep without resale or transfer rights. (https://download.kobobooks.com/learnmore/kobo1_pdf/Kobo_eReader_Terms_of_Use.pdf)

Google: Yours to keep provided the authorized agent and Google themselves maintain rights to provide it. (https://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/tos.html)

B&N Nook: seems to be more in line with Amazon (https://www.nook.com/services/cms/doc/us/en_us/legal/nook-store-terms.html#ItemsPurchases)

Smashwords: seems more like ownership without transferability. (https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos)

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 days ago

Wow, I didn't expect such a torough answer, thank you very much! 😊 I'll try to convince my sister to save all the books somewhere else, but I don't have much hope. --👂️😐️👂️-->