Re: Reading Kindle books on Linux

Better the Department of Justice and there's an A.D.A. complaint form 
that can be filed out on line somewhere on the department of justice 
website too.  Once a complaint gets filed and it will have to be by a 
citizen of the United States in order to have legal standing, the filer 
gets a referral number and that number needs to be used for any follow 
up correspondence.

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:35:16
> From: Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Reading Kindle books on Linux
> 
> 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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