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		IvyMike on May 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I won’t buy ebooks anymore > If I want to read your book on my Kindle, the only option is piracy. It's in the kindle store... what am I missing?

wantstobuybook on May 26, 2020 [–]

My Kindle's old enough that it doesn't support the ACSM files you get from Amazon. I'd have to convert them to mobi from the DRM'd epub - which I cannot download from the ACSM because Adobe Digital Editions does not exist for my operating system.

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