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Added a "2 month update" section to my blog post about #Amazon bricking my kindle and reading at least 26 books on the Kindle Paperwhite I bought to replace it.

tl;dr: I regret buying a paperwhite instead of the Kobo Libra Color.

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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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What a total pain.
I unDRM my Kindle books so I can read them in Braille, but to do that I have to download and transfer via USB then use calibre. Presumably my device will also stop being supported soon.
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masukomi
masukomi
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@cachondo wait.... you unDRM them still? Like present day? I haven't figured out how to do that for the latest kindle DRM.

Please tell me your secrets!!!

I used to use calibre for that, but I'm pretty sure it can't do the latest anymore. I tried 2 paid apps too. They could extract the content but they lost all the formatting and things like bold and italic.

@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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To be honest I'm still using the old setup. I had to add the serial number of the physical Kindle into a Calibre plugin somewhere for it all to work. Doesn't work on the newer KFX files, but every book I've acquired is still downloadable as an AZW file from the website. It's a paperwhite 10th gen.
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masukomi
masukomi
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@cachondo ahh i didnā€™t know you could still download the AZW files. That was the piece i was missing.

As far as i know thereā€™s no good decryption for the KFX files although the paid ones may work for you, unless braille readers do something useful to designate bold and italics

@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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Long story there. They do now, but didn't when I learned Braille as a kid so I don't miss the formatting. In fact many of the Braille books from the 80's in the UK didn't have capital letters in them either!
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masukomi
masukomi
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@cachondo why do people keep making such half-assed accessibility accommodations? Like, i get that it can be hard but ā€œfuck-it. I did the bare minimumā€ and then wandering off is just a dick move
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