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Kindle Version of ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’

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“The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” is now available in a completely DRM-free format for Kindle for $16.

This is exactly the same book – same words, photos and drawings – we have been offering since June 2011. But with the ePub version you will be able to search the entire book, write electronic notes in the margins, change the font size and (of course) carry it with you anywhere on any Kindle or Kindle app.

This Kindle version of the book is served by Lost Art Press – not Amazon – so you will be able to easily backup the file and freely move it among your electronic devices.

Unlike many electronic book files, we chose to make ours without DRM – the acronym for “digital rights management.” Many Kindle files with DRM are a pain to use. You might be restricted from copying the file for backup, or even simply copying and pasting passages from the book.

Frankly, DRM doesn’t jibe well with the philosophy of the book, the author or Lost Art Press.

Because you will download the Kindle version from us and not Amazon, you have to move it onto your Kindle manually. This is an easy process (even easier than adding a book to the iPad). Amazon offers this tutorial:

Transfer Files to your Kindle via USB

To purchase this electronic book, simply add it to your shopping cart. After you check out you will immediately be given the link to download it. If you are an international customer, the process is different. Send $16 U.S. to john@lostartpress.com via PayPal and we will send you the link manually.

Click here to visit our store and order the Kindle version.

— Christopher Schwarz

8 thoughts on “Kindle Version of ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’”

  1. You can also get a book on your Kindle by emailing it to yourself. You set up an email address when you registered and you can get it on your Manage Your Kindle page in your My Account section on amazon.com. Just email the file to “myaccount@free.kindle.com” (where “myaccount” is whatever yours actually is).

  3. As a guy who earns his living from his Intellectual Property, I appreciate your stance on DRM and even more, the fact that you are vocal about it. In years long gone Borland, a maker of tools for programmers, had the most appropriate license agreement I’ve ever seem. It was simply to treat it like a book. In total it was a short paragraph. License agreements today are the size of one of your books and are horrifying in what they contain.

  4. Just saw you on Roy’s show. You were in my neighborhood.

    Good stuff, funny, too.

  5. So, after checking every day to see if the Kindle version of ATC had been released, I found myself in Toronto on business and in Lee Valley for pleasure where I spotted ATC on the bookshelf. So I purchased it. On Friday. The day before it was released on Kindle…

    I will have to say I do not regret my purchase. Even though I prefer to do most of my reading on the Kindle since I travel, I appreciate the quality of the actual book that you have produced which accentuates the content which is first class.

  6. Will other Lost Art publications have the Kindle version option in the future?

    1. It depends on the book. Every book is a partnership with the author(s). They might not want an electronic edition. Or certain images might be governed by copyrights that prohibit it. So I cannot say simply “yes” or “no.” My hope is that yes, there will be Kindle/ePub editions of our future books.

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