Kindle Cloud Help

[wide_worlds_joy]

Okay, i just got given a couple books for review by the author. Problem is that they are set up for Kindle, and I don't have one. It's stored at my "Kindle Cloud" storage site, and I'd really like to download them to my local PC in a format that Calibre can read, or, most preferably, a PDF file.

Anyone have instructions on how to do this?

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[elf]

Kindle Cloud is apparently html-5 based, and designed to not let you extract things from it. (Although it works if you lose your online connection, so the files are in your hard drive *somewhere.*)

I'm in the camp that says "tell author to provide books in a format convenient for you, or refuse to review." But I'm a hardcore holdout against mobi format and cloud-dependent activity.

A couple of years back, Scalzi got cards for ARCs that had DRM and declined to review them. His response, in part:

I have to confess to not really seeing the upside for me of having to validate all sorts of various machines in order to look at a book you wish to publicize, and to be entirely blunt about it, offering up a DRM’d book that explodes in 30 days has the subtext of “we really don’t trust you not to put this into a torrent,” which annoys me, even though I am sure you don’t mean it that way.

Which is to say: They certainly have the book available in formats that Calibre will work with. If they don't trust you not to distribute it around the web, why do they care what good things you'd say about it?