I last blogged about Kindle and Kobo and DRM in February. Since then, I’ve figured out how to strip DRM from Kindle books again. Short version: you need both the DeDRM and KFX plugins for Calibre, and you need to copy the books directly from your Kindle into Calibre. For a longer version, see this video.
So that feels good, though I’m really at the point where I’m fine reading Kindle books on my Kindle Colorsoft and Kobo books on my Kobo Libra Colour. It’s nice to know I have backups though, if something happens.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this on the blog before, but I’ve hit a tipping point recently, in terms of my vision. I’m now finding that many of the print books I have in my TBR pile have print too small for me to comfortably read. So I’m going through a process where I’m trying to replace those with Kindle or Kobo versions. In some cases, I’ve found the books via OverDrive, and I can borrow them from the library. In other cases, I’ve added them to my Kindle wish list, and will buy them if I see them on sale cheap. Either way, I’m taking the print books and donating them. So this will eventually help me clear out some of the clutter in my apartment too. I hope to eventually zero out my hard copy TBR pile entirely.
On a related topic, I signed up for BookBub recently. I’m using that to keep an eye out for sales on these old print books that I want to replace with ebooks. And of course, the BookBub emails have caused me to purchase some books I wasn’t actually looking out for, so my Kindle library continues to grow, much faster than I can actually read through it. But too many books is much better than not enough books, so that’s fine.