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Monkeh:

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--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on August 11, 2020, 03:35:15 pm ---The issue with Kindle is you don't really own anything.  It's all cloud based. 

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Files (ebook and pdf) are on the cloud but there is a copy of these files on the flash memory of my Kindle PaperWhite, and if I connect my Kindle to a computer via USB, I can copy them like if was a common pendrive.

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They are, of course, encrypted.. Which I'm sure has been broken a few times now.

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Pdf are not encrypted, so as mostly of my paid epub files. I bought from Amazon a lot of ebook tales written by Philip K. Dick, I cannot read them on my computer because I haven't installed an application, but by opening files via usb the PaperWhite works as if it was a pen stick and with a text editor I see readable strings of text.

If they were encrypted, I should not read anything that looks like human sentences.

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Unless policies have changed, Kindle titles delivered by Amazon are encrypted unless the publisher/author opts out of it. I can't see the average publisher ever even considering the idea of not having DRM..
0db:
I was not sure if my ebooks were DRM protected or DRM free, and I searched the word such as "Adobe", "Adept" or "DRM" or "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the product description on the details page.

And found that all my ebooks do report "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited", thus they are DRM free, and this means a lot of purchases are DRM free by default, in spite of what most people think.

Probably buying a DRM-protected ebook has more chance to happen with Kobo, Nook, Google play ebooks.

edit: p.s.
found this tool as workaround.
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: 0db on August 12, 2020, 07:48:38 pm ---Mine, not all my ebooks, report "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited", thus they are obviously DRM free, and this means a lot of purchases are DRM-free by default, in spite of what most people think.

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That is not the same thing as being DRM-free. Being able to pick up the title on multiple devices is a primary selling point of their service - but that doesn't mean you can drop it on someone else's device for them to read.
0db:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on August 12, 2020, 07:52:26 pm ---That is not the same thing as being DRM-free. Being able to pick up the title on multiple devices is a primary selling point of their service - but that doesn't mean you can drop it on someone else's device for them to read.

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It means it's not DRM protected. Otherwise how could you open it form different and unregistered devices?
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: 0db on August 12, 2020, 07:57:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on August 12, 2020, 07:52:26 pm ---That is not the same thing as being DRM-free. Being able to pick up the title on multiple devices is a primary selling point of their service - but that doesn't mean you can drop it on someone else's device for them to read.

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It means it's not DRM protected. Otherwise how could you open it form different and unregistered devices?

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You uh, don't, when you buy a typical ebook from Amazon. Again, DRM. I just grabbed a random one - very much encrypted, have to download for the specific target device.

I don't know about your particular example (as I've never seen that string on Amazon and you don't... give.. links..), but again, titles sold on the Kindle store typically employ DRM, and being allowed to use multiple devices to view a title does not imply no DRM is in use.
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