If you find an author you like, check their website. There are decent odds they directly sell ebooks or link to their publisher’s website first. I’ve heard mixed reports on it, but some people claim buying direct from the publisher gives the writer a bigger cut (and, obviously, buying from them directly does).

Usually resutls in a DRM free ebook without any effort.

Yeah. Adobe is basically easy mode. It is why so many people, erroneously, claim that Kobo has no DRM (it also uses Adobe Digital Editions).

Guides for that are basically everywhere and versions don’t matter at all. Was going to set that up with just a bottle but it is harder to get ADE to run under wine than it is to use the drm removal plugin with it and I have this Windows VM just sitting in a folder…

Yup.

A Sanderson book will be on every tracker. But ML Wang? Maybe now that booktube love them but most smaller writers don’t get that

And, truth be told, I like reading and want authors I like to be able to justify the time spent writing.

Can’t hurt. But the batch file creates a dummy file that actively prevents k4pc from downloading any updates. Amazon could always change how it handles updates but… that would require an update to take effect.

The big issue is that Kindle is actually a spectacularly author friendly platform and stuff like Kindle unlimited locks them in it

So I buy most of my e-books via kobo or direct purchases from the authors. But some are still locked in Kindle

Can never tell who is going to wipe their posts on reddit or not so reproducing this here (and locally for my own use) since a lot of people have been trying to do this and this method still works as of March 12th 2025.