Kindle books are notoriously difficult to store or convert to other formats. Amazon’s books are protected by DRM technology, preventing users from reading them on their favorite apps or converting them. But while Amazon cracks down hard on attempts to circumvent DRM, there is still a way to truly own your own books.

The following guide will tell you all about the changes to Amazon's DRM policy and how to DeDRM (i.e., remove) your Kindle books so you can read them wherever you want.

Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is the technology that Amazon uses for its Kindle books. It ensures that the books remain behind a paywall and cannot be transferred to others or read on any platform other than Kindle apps and devices, which is the biggest complaint users have about DRMs.

Amazon has a habit of periodically changing the DRM locks on files, preventing users from downloading and converting them to a format of their choosing, even if they’ve paid for their books. So what worked last year may not work anymore.