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Saved and liberated the books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I have downloaded all 210 books. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I have my private backup and can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon
So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!
(All 210 books done)
Now just to be very clear. I have paid for each and every single one of the 210 books, so I see my actions as making a personal backup that is actually usable. Is all. I can now #selfhost my books, just as I do with my music, TV Series and movies (that I have also all bought, most of it as physical media. Yes, I have quite a big space reserved for physical media like vinyl, CD, DVD in my apartment. Ripped all of it to my NAS Server)
To those that have a lot of eBooks from Amazon and don't have the time/patience to manually click through the download option:
Python script to download all eBooks:
https://github.com/bellisk/BulkKindleUSBDownloader
Greasemonkey script to download all 25 per page (you still have to manually click to open all pages, but then all 25 per page are downloaded automagically)
https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js
Thank you to @eBerdnA for sharing this tip in the comments!
@nnwest@retro.pizza@jwildeboer @eBerdnA Thank you! Downloading all my and my partner's Kindle purchases is my weekend project. This will help immensely!