Jules she/herOkay I have about 900 Kindle books that I've paid for. I've never dared try stripping the DRM off them in case Amazon somehow finds out and blocks my account, losing me the rest of them. But since Amazon's planning on deprecating my Kindle in May now I guess I have nothing to lose. What would everyone suggest? And can anyone recommend a good e ink reader to replace the Kindle that can read files from any source?
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@afewbugs the DRM stripping is done externally, by copying the files from the Kindle to a PC, so it doesn't have anything to do with any of the files on the Kindle. There's no way for Amazon to know.
@gcvsa I was just a bit concerned they would have something set up to compare files on the Kindle with what I've bought and know I'd done it. I do connect it to wifi to transfer books and sync with the kindle app on my phone and will stop doing that, but the app reports my "reading streak" which I find incredibly creepy and invasive so tehy're clearly tracking what i do on there
@afewbugs But when you strip the DRM from the files, it doesn't remove the DRM from the files on the Kindle. Nothing changes on the Kindle. You just make a copy of the files on you computer, and strip the DRM from the copies.
@gcvsa I was just worried Amazon would see the files on my Kindle when I put them back on my Kindle and compare them to ones I'd bought with DRM
@afewbugs But you won't be putting the files back on your Kindle, because the files are already on the Kindle and don't get removed when you copy them, and the Kindle will continue to work with the copies of the files on it that have the DRM intact.
@gcvsa gotcha, sorry. You're talking about the de-drm'd versions as a backup but nothing with drm actually comes off my kindle. My problem is my kindle doesn't actually have enough storage to hold all my books, so I was planning on having all drm free files and just rotating them in and out, but you're right it would make more sense to just keep the drm free ones as a backup