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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 16:17:45 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   Saved and liberated the first 100 books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I am downloading all 210 books now. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:29:25 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • André Bering

     To those that have a lot of eBooks from Amazon and don't have the time/patience to manually click through the download option:

     Python script to download all eBooks:
     https://github.com/Jedi425/BulkKindleUSBDownloader/tree/master

     Greasemonkey script to download all 25 per page (you still have to manually click to open all pages, but then all 25 per page are downloaded automagically)
     https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js

     Thank you to @eBerdnA for sharing this tip in the comments!

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:29:26 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     Now just to be very clear. I have paid for each and every single one of the 210 books, so I see my actions as making a personal backup that is actually usable. Is all. I can now #selfhost my books, just as I do with my music, TV Series and movies (that I have also all bought, most of it as physical media. Yes, I have quite a big space reserved for physical media like vinyl, CD, DVD in my apartment. Ripped all of it to my NAS Server)

     Børge repeated this.
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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:29:27 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     (All 210 books done)

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:29:28 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!