of course the simple solution is to tell Amazon, who must make
their products accessible, to create a Kindle application for Linux.
The hacking into them is exactly why getting anyone on board with said
treaty is a problem. It is established by the existence of an
application to violate copyright that people will violate copyright.
Yes Bookshare is a huge alternative, and many many countries are a part of
the program now.
But if one wants a solution rooted in integrity, get amazon to solve
the problem. I believe the department of Education and or Justice
successfully told them that they must, with some tools existing already.
I will go one better, if you can write applications offer to partner with
them, and earn some money too boot.
Just my take,
Karen
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
On 9/14/2015 3:47 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
I have Debian Jessie set up for command-line only, Braille only. Is
there a way to read Kindle books?
Hi all,
Since there seems to be some interest in this, here goes. As always,
corrections welcome.
The short answer is no. Kindle books are in the .mobi format. It's highly
likely that ebook-convert can convert them except for one little problem.
Most Kindle books have DRM protection, meaning that you have to be able to
decrypt them before you can do anything further. The idea, of course, is so
you won't share them or do exactly what you're trying to do. Not all books
have DRM, but most do. If you only buy Kindle books without DRM, you should
be fine, but there seems to be no easy way to find out which do and which
don't.
There is a little bit of good news. Someone has written a Python program to
break this decryption. I will not share it for obvious legal reasons, but
one can find it if one looks hard enough. It was designed for Windows and
might require a GUI, but since the decryption part is a command line Python
program, it should work in Linux. Look for a program to break the Amazon DRM
encryption on .mobi files.
Sorry for not having a better answer. If you're in the US, Bookshare is
probably a better alternative. They don't use DRM, their files are a lot
easier to convert and they get a lot of publisher files. They do have
international members, but I don't know to what extent their books are
available outside of the US. Hopefully the recently enacted treaty will help
with some of this. If you do have a better solution, I am very interested.
I usually don't buy Kindle books because it's such a hassle to make them
readable.
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