I updated to the lastest version of the DeDRM tools, and tried again and this was still the case. As I suspected would happen, when importing books purchased on the Voyage I found the DRM was no longer being removed. I use the DeDRM tools from Apprentice Alf that are designed to work easily with the excellent ebook management tool Calibre so that when I backup books from my Kindle to my computer the DRM is automatically removed. But for those who like me want control over their own purchases, they may find this useful. I don’t distribute or sell these of course, nor do I condone that. What I want to talk about is DRM.Īs many know I like to keep a DRM free copy of books that I own on my computer so that I can read them on whatever platform or device I may choose. I won’t go into all the new and awesome features here, as there are a ton of sites that do that. I finally bit the bullet and got one, and so far am really loving it. On Christmas I had received a bunch of Amazon gift cards, and it finally placed purchasing one of the new Kindle Voyage e-ink readers that I have been coveting for so long in reach. Even after I significantly removed the amount of books I was storing on the device, this still happened every once in a while, and waiting for the device to get its bearings so that I could continue reading my latest book was getting to be a pain.

I suspect the database of metadata was getting corrupted and on waking the kindle up, the home screen would only display a few books, and then go about updating its database (which took forever) until it would eventually display all my books again.

Worse with the massive number of books I kept stored in it, it would occasionally freak out. First it had gotten to the point that it wasn’t holding a charge as long as it once did. The old Kindle Keyboard I bought four years ago and use the heck out of had been acting “hinky” for the last year or so.

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