Unless latest means "In the last few months" then no it's still trivial. I buy a lot of "Kindle" books, but I always rip the DRM and make an ebook version I actually use and archive. My attitude is that once I pay for a song/game/book/etc... it's no one's business, but my own how I use it (for myself I mean, obviously uploading it to others is a different issue).
I think it's easier with some providers than others. I bought an Amazon ebook that I was really struggling to de-DRM (so I promptly returned it and have only bought books with Adobe DRM since).
Erm, i have a "friend" that has a few fancy signed physical hard covers that were never opened... because they took their sweet time to arrive so said "friend" downloaded the epub...
Also back in the day when games came on discs, they used to download the no cd crack before opening the shrink wrapped box.
I think we have the same friend. He told me he likes to download a book to get a feel for it… like thumbing through a book in a bookshop. If it’s good, he goes ahead and buys it.
Not with the latest encryption. Although you can always screenshot and ocr. Or maybe I've missed something new.
Unless latest means "In the last few months" then no it's still trivial. I buy a lot of "Kindle" books, but I always rip the DRM and make an ebook version I actually use and archive. My attitude is that once I pay for a song/game/book/etc... it's no one's business, but my own how I use it (for myself I mean, obviously uploading it to others is a different issue).
For books from Amazon. Still trivial to remove DRM from Kobo, Google Play, any place that uses Adobe DRM.
I think it's easier with some providers than others. I bought an Amazon ebook that I was really struggling to de-DRM (so I promptly returned it and have only bought books with Adobe DRM since).
It's probably even easier to download them from Z-Library after having bought them on whatever legal platform.
Erm, i have a "friend" that has a few fancy signed physical hard covers that were never opened... because they took their sweet time to arrive so said "friend" downloaded the epub...
Also back in the day when games came on discs, they used to download the no cd crack before opening the shrink wrapped box.
I think we have the same friend. He told me he likes to download a book to get a feel for it… like thumbing through a book in a bookshop. If it’s good, he goes ahead and buys it.