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I'm really glad that I downloaded my entire Kindle library a month ago, and converted it all to either CBZ or Epub.
Fuck Bezos.
One tip for the audiobook-fans: Download your Audible books while you still can. It's only a matter of time before Bezos locks those downloads too. Libation will help liberate your library into DRM-free files.
Locked-in platform closing the door. How surprising.
Accepting DRM in the first place is the problem. Hard to avoid, but still. I just got a boox; great value, can't use adobe DRM. Didn't have any problem there. Of course, money is going everywhere except big "publishers", but that's hardly an issue; they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.
they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.
Ooh, this is very pithy. I like it. I will use it.
reMarkable, PineNote, Bookeen, etc...
I'm not saying anybody deserve to be mistreated ... but come on, at this point if you buy something from Amazon it's Stockholm syndrome. Just do NOT. It's that easy.
F*ck Bezos and other billionaires. Stop making them even richer from your pain. Stop your mind from being literally enslaved!
And PocketBook. Don't see them locking down anytime soon.
Thing is, the pinenote is €610, and the kindle paperwhite is £160, cheaper on discount.
I get your point and there’s a reason why the kindle is as cheap as it is, but I can understand why someone would see those prices and go for the kindle.
There is a whole community of people out there who will pretty much refuse to buy brand new electronics. And thats for very obvious and valid reasons.
Kindles can be found for dirt cheap if not free 2nd hand. And so many users have a kindle for this reason. Myself included. Id never throw out or discard an electronic device that continues to work. For the same obvious reasons as why i dont buy new ones.
And so this information is super relevant and important to users like me. Regardless of how much people like you might be convinced that "we had it coming" or whatever.
Been using an Onyx Boox Nova 3 for maybe ~~8~~ 4 years now. It runs android, drm free everything (edit: it has no store really, it is basically empty. Supports virtually any filetype you can read. Epub, pdf, mobi, cbz). For some android could be a distraction from reading, but the browser is slow enough to were you use it to hop on annas-archive, get a book and then quickly close it. File transfer via shared wifi or USB, good reader, some nice reading stats without needing any account. Recommend if anyone wants to jump the amazon ship.
Repeat after me!.... En-shit-ti-fication!
My solution was to just redownload all my books from z-lib after I bought them already.
I've been monkey paw'd with my wish "Z library becoming the most convenient eBook platform"
Quick shout out to oceanofpdf
I heard there are ways to jailbreak all Kindles...
How would that help here? The only thing Amazon is removing is the ability to download your purchased eBooks to your PC.
It helps because you regain that feature when you jailbreak...
When you jailbrake the kindle you can download the ebooks from Amazon to the PC?
The files now use a different kind of DRM that hasn't been defeated yet.
The purpose of using the soon to be removed feature was to get files with an older encryption that can be easily removed
library genesis exists, people. anna's archive, anyone?
digital drm is the one fucking thing they push onto us that we don't actually have to fucking deal with. thanks to our team of ~~rippers and crackers~~ people who hate this system.
leave amazon. leave netflix. leave whatever fucking streaming service you subscribe to, and stop being sensitive about rich people's money.
A lot of books money goes to not rich people though
if you can afford it, wire the author the 50 bucks or so for the book, and explain why you did it. most of them will be thrilled to get the full 50 for the book, i bet.
if you can't, well they wouldnt have gotten any money anyway.
I have never more strongly considered a subscription to annas archive than when that new dropped.
If it's alright for Facebook, it's alright for me. Yoho
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Am I an idiot for enjoying my Kindle Paperwhite as an eReader, while at the same time never actually buying books from Amazon?
It’s a good piece of hardware. I do the same thing. Although I recently got a Kobo and I gotta say that I do prefer the kobo slightly better. Kindle is still good shit though
Nope. Mine has never connected to the www
Same. I find ebooks for my family or we use Libby. I wouldn't know how to buy a book on my kindle if I wanted to.