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pangram on Dec 31, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live

It's a bit cleaner than that -- it gets the decryption key from the reader with the Windows debugging APIs, and then removes the DRM. You're left with the original ebook.

w1ntermute on Dec 31, 2010 [–]

Ah, that's good to hear. Using the analog hole leaves you with a pretty poor copy of most digital files.

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