I had an old kindle that I never connected to the net or with an amazon account. I loaded books by USB.

Damn near impossible to find DRM free books to purchase though.

DavideNL 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Damn near impossible to find DRM free books to purchase

My method has always been to buy physical books (which is also better to support the author, because they get a bigger % of the price you pay.

And then, there are other creative ways to download the ebook... (without buying from Amazon, or other monopolists.)

cbdevidal 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is still possible to remove DRM and export to PDF or epub. Not point-and-click easy, though.

While Calibre makes it easy, it's even easier to just download a copy someone else has already stripped of DRM.

If publishers/authors want my money, they can release a version without DRM.

	▲	lostlogin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Calibre is a rather painful tool, but seems to remain the best. Calibre web and calibre web automated downloader remove a fair bit of the clunk.