If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an “otherwise obtained” book?

  • passepartout@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As I’ve never been sure about that, I always used kindles without wifi access and copied the books onto the device with calibre. I recently read about people sending their pirated books to the email adress amazon hands you to automatically copy files to the kindle, using a burner account i suppose, still those people have some balls lol.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been doing this since I got the first kindle, some 7 years ago. Amazon doesn’t really care and, unless DMCA comes, they won’t ever.