Now I think for those new books, you need to do some hoop jumping about "send to device" with an old kindle or PC.
Is there a place that sells ebooks that with easily strippable DRM?
At this point I think Apple’s really the only candidate for it. Everyone else is either helped by DRM (Amazon, B&N, Kobo), too small, or just don’t seem like a good fit (Google). I was hoping they’d do it after doing so with music, but at this point I’ve given up.
So what happened afterwards?
Deutsche Telekom sold the infrastructure to Rakuten, the Japanese owners of Kobo , in 2017. Interestingly, 6 years later, Tolino still exists with the same DRM-free architecture and new devices are actually developed by Rakuten.
Unfortunately, converting to the older file format means you lose all the typography improvements from the newer version. Also, I believe that loophole is slowly being closed by Amazon. It’s probably not a viable long term solution.
Personally Calibre did amazing work for me always, even if the UI was clunky. When I used a kindle i had it set up to immediately convert everything to a non DRM format and use amazon whispernet (or whatever they're calling it now) to send them automatically and wirelessly to the device.
Hard to argue with that kind of flawless performance.