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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can I root my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Surprised Pikachu face

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how long before this US administration makes "copyright infringement" a felony...

🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And then copyrights all pending legislation...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This is what the class war looks like in nuts and bolts...

Most idiots are not even aware of the original tragedy of the commons so they are doomed to be degraded into owning nothing and being happy to pay monthly fee to exist without as much as an objection.

After all, a normie got nothing to hide!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Makes it harder to pirate or share, so more profit with the benefit of censorship. They could make updates to material on the fly if they wanted. Assuming you need an Internet connection, no privacy and limits where you can read. It's hard because you can't avoid things like AWS but you can stop paying them directly. Sadly, even now, it's hard to convince people to give up on Amazon and similar corps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I’m sad that the Kindle Oasis doesn’t get a new model. Mine has served me well for the past few years, but it’s starting to show its age.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This won’t stop users from removing DRM. There will always be a way to own your e-books.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article literally says you will still be able to push books via Calibre etc, but won't be able to download books into Kindle from PC.

Example: If you don't have a WiFi at home, there is an option to connect Kindle via USB to your ethernet connected PC and download books from Amazon that way.

And this option is going away, as most people have WiFi.

Anywho, fuck Amazon (for other things, but not this one).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I send epubs via email. I didn't see any reference to that. Is that still going to be possible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have access to the same information as you, so unfortunately, I don't know.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I literally just installed caliber recently. Are they following my every move or something? Trying desperately to prevent other "near techky" people from leaving the market place?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I read somwhere how to solve this

1 - factory reset

2 - deactivate wifi for life

3 - upload books with calibre

This will wipe out any content you have, as i understand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mixed up step 2, it's supposed to be "Install KoReader".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm planing on doing this but i fear 2 things out of pure ignorance: killing my kindle and battery usage

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I upload books with Calibre and never had to reset anything. It’s great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have a kindle, but I never buy my books at Amazon. I just but them elsewhere, de-DRM them on calibre and copy them to the kindle. Not as comfortable, but okay for me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

resist.

Stop buying whatever it is that Amazon/Meta/Google/Etc sell. They will not stand for you. They will not respect you.

At some points, it may seem like they changed and that they are now good. They are not. They will never be. Resist them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least install KoReader before they find a way to firmware-lock the device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using calibre to just upload books directly.

I'll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Calibre is the way to go. KoReader is basically custom built for Calibre, and includes things (missing from the base kindle firmware) like native metadata retrieval.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You could have made a better choice, I suppose. And some authors/editors do deserve the money.

Pirating is not necessarily resisting. Are you taking money from authors who really really need it? Or are you taking money from rich CEOs who are worsening the environment, ruining future generations, slaving, etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Whenever you want to buy a book, pirate it, then donate the amount equivalent to the purchase price directly to the authors. Bypass the middleman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya good point.

Seems like I'm doing it backwards lol

Giving money to Amazon for the hardware and then stealing from the authors.

I should do some more research before buying my next ebook reader.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Pirate the books, then donate the purchase price directly to the authors to bypass the middleman.

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