Amazon locks the gate on downloading Kindle ebooks tomorrow. Download ‘em while you can.
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Wait what
Thanks for the reminder 😮💨
Man, I wonder if Amazon/book publishers are gonna complain about piracy skyrocketing soon. 🙄
I swear that companies hosting media don't know anything about what consumers want.
1. Get old version of Kindle Desktop and download the azw files
2. Install the DeCRM plug-in in Calibre
3. Import azw files into Calibre and convert to EPUB
Reminder Amazon won government contracts as well so …
Time to go back to the olden days! 
Yo, fam! 📚💔 You think this is just a flex or are they really tryna keep us from our faves? What’s the scoop? 🤔 #KindleGate
You’ll own nothing and be happy’ Amazon, probably. Time to go hug my paperback collection.
Yes! 🫂 📖
Fuck these people! I hate this so much. We are a family of readers and want nothing more than to give someone money to buy a digital copy of a book to put on a device of our choosing that isn't connected to the internet 24/7 and spying us. But I guess we'll just not...
Or skip the steps and go grab a copy on z-library. https://en.z-lib.gs/ seems to be working currently
Thanks a lot for this shout out!!! 👊 I have bought more than 200 books on Amazon over the years. I used this buøl download tool to simplify the job. Download books for all Kindle versions to increase success rate of DRM to ePub conversion. Use Calibre with DeDRM plugin to convert.
Books now start to transfer to my reMarkable device. #kindle #amazon 
Cheers. I tried that tool, as well, but it kept failing at the OTP step.
Laughs in Nostr r-reader.
#Alexandria
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A tremendous resource, for sure.
in related news, i cant believe libgen is still down 🥲
libgen over nostr with books hosted on blossm servers would be amazing
re: libgen, disappointing, libgen+ is available
re: books over nostr: I have been thinking about this a lot:
- NIP-23 markdown is enough for most books
- converion to epub can be done using Calibre, pandoc, Google Docs
I'm working on an app series that renders markdown similar to the Apple Books app 
why turn books into markdown when theres formats dedicated to render books already?
storying books as nip-23 events doesnt seem very pratical, especially books with images, charts, footnotes/citations something that book formats handle really well
using comics as an example of reading material that couldnt work as markdown, a nostr reading app could look something like tachiyomi/mihon (a comic/manga reader) where instead of connecting to directories of hosted sources it'd just be a list of npubs reading off notes pointing where the content is hosted instead 🤔
Markdown because it is a format that works with NIP-23. The vast majority of books need only the most basic markdown (if that). No extension or deviation from the spec is needed.
Anything with images is a different matter, comic idk much about, but they are normally specific formats right?
yeah, nostr's replacement for any online library is probably NIP35 torrent posts, not NIP23 long text
Form over function?
It’s text, no need to turn it into a binary blob
It's too much text to rely on centralized hosting for, plus images etc
Posting torrents of all the files is easier to do with archives of these libraries, instead of converting every book to a new format
Eg these classics are all perfect in markdown 
turning one of those into a NIP-23 works perfectly, and they can be read in any client
GitHub
GitHub - mlschmitt/classic-books-markdown: A collection of classic books presented in markdown format
A collection of classic books presented in markdown format - mlschmitt/classic-books-markdown
if the goal is to store material conveniently (as a whole) and broadcast widely, a binary blob of verifiable packets would do much better than a garbeled mess of text attached to a signature to check against. for example, a relay would have to send the whole note before a book could ever render, whereas some pdfs can load a partial book and resume half-way through downloading.
sending an ebook through nip23 would be like sending an mp3 on FM radio. kinda going backwards here even though it's all "just text"
nip23 is great for blogging
i still think its cool that you want to bring markdown books onto nostr though
I like the goal of getting as many people exposed as many books as possible.
I understand that some people also want the Project Gutenberg version of The Iliad in Mobi format etc., I would focus on ease of exposure