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Not really possible anymore. It'd be easier to just pirate the books at this point after the changes Amazon made this year.
It is still possible if you have an old enough Kindle. I have a 1st gen paperwhite and can just connect it via USB to my PC and pull books off the kindle with Calibre and then remove the DRM.
Though if you're wanting to remove DRM from Kindle Unlimited books, you'll have to actually edit the DeDRM plugin code, as by default its set to not let it be run on KU books.
I had mine jailbroken and had koreader on there. I put it online without realizing and amazon forced an update without my consent so they could patch that little loophole. It still lets me download azw3 files from content & devices to "manually transfer to device" but I was not pleased
Just wanted to drop some info about Kindle jailbreaks for those curious. All this information is as far as I know. Newer methods and exploits could have released.
The latest jailbreak's can typically be found on the MobileRead website. The current version/exploit is compatible with Kindle devices running the following firmware versions:
KT3, KT4, KOA1, KOA2, KOA3, PW3, PW4, PW5:
5.14.2
5.14.1 (5.14.1.1 on PW5)
5.13.7
5.13.6
5.13.5
5.13.4
KV:
5.13.6
5.13.5
5.13.4
KT2, PW2:
5.12.2.2
KOReader is why a lot of people jailbreak their Kindles and it can be used to tweak settings to make things like PDFs fit better and read unsupported file types like CBZ and EPUB.
If you do jailbreak your Kindle make sure to keep it in airplane mode to prevent automatic updates.