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Ugh. I was looking for a Book and found it on Barnes and Noble. according to the blurb I was supposed to be able to download it after purchase. But after purchasing it I quickly found out that you can only download it if you have the Nook app. Which isn't available in Canada. Where I'm from.
I was able to find the .apk and install it on my phone but the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
same goes for steam, epic launcher, etc. with the exception of gog (though generally if steam removes a game, they at least let you keep your copy if you already own it)
Yaar, matey.
I hate that pirating is the ONLY way to even semi own what you buy. Bought an album off Bandcamp (DRM free music) and when one of the songs on that album got in a pointless argument about copyright and got taken down from my Spotify playlists.
Songs being taken off of Spotify is really common if you're into older stuff as the rights get passed on when the artist dies. Though in this case it was a year old album.
I was glad I bought it DRM free as I thought they could only unlist it from the store, not from libraries... until I saw it was gone there too.
I payed MONEY for them to take it out of my library on a DRM free site. That's like them taking my music CD and scratching it with sandpaper.
Pirating literally gives me the same experience as buying it for literally no issue. (except the lossless files but who cares)
Yes, most Kindles allow you to load your own PDFs and .ebook files, so pirating them is inconsequential.
I came to the same realization about my audiobooks through audible, so I've archived my audible account and now they can't take my books :D
YSK, finding and installing mobi files are easy. Also, keeping your Kindle in airplane mode prevents ads. Fuck Amazon. Calibre is a great open source piece of software.
I'm glad you mentioned airplane mode. I noticed something interesting about my Kindle after I set up a Pi Hole on my home network. The kindle would constantly try to connect to the Amazon mothership. Because the Pi Hole was blocking it, it would try it over and over again and this quickly depleted the batteries (maybe trying to boost it's WiFi signal? I'm not sure). Putting it into Airplane mode helps preserve battery life noticeably, back to what it was before I installed the Pi Hole.
It drains battery faster even if it's not blocked too, kind of annoying.
This is why I pirate my media, and you should too!
Readarr + calibre makes it very convenient and easy (the rest of the arr suite is great for other forms of media too)
Too bad there's no easy way for a tech illiterate dumb person such as myself to read a step-by-fucking-step instruction to get it all working for myself.
it's the same with Google Books. you can't copy text from the book you bought into your notes. you're not allowed to copy text. i want to buy books legitimately for my research, but i cant use any of this shit.
What do you mean? Bookmarks with no labels and highlights with no indexing isn't enough for you? What do you want, integration of open source note taking software with Google Books?!? That's ridiculous, nobody would ever use that...
Okay but for real. I got through college using One Note's snip tool to take pictures of the text and paste it into my digital notes. So that's a way to do it. It does suck that we have all this tech but we won't let it talk to each other because rich people have to get richer, even around academia.
Is there an ebook service like GOG is for games? DRM free so you can keep the books regardless of what happens to the service?
(I know it's easy enough to remove it, but I'd rather support a service like that if I can)
Any of the third party reading apps and any epub file you store yourself. So if you buy an ebook from Amazon but get the epub version instead of Kindle then it's protected from deletion. This is because you store it like any other document and your epub reader just reads the file.
DRM fuckery means your mileage will vary.
So Kobo is the way to go then?
I'm really asking, my daughter is becoming a big book worm and we have missed out on some great sales because she only reads physical books ATM. I want her to give it a try with an e-ready and did not like Amazon for it.
I use Pocketbook. It opens just about anything - epub, mobi, pdf, pdb, and many more formats. Just get a book anywhere and copy it via USB. Or send it as an email attachment to your special address and it will download automatically. You can even replace the reading app with another relatively easily, if you want.
Pocketbook sounds great, I'll check it out.
Thanks for the info!
Kobo has direct access to your public library too through Overdrive. Makes borrowing ebooks super easy!
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As someone who publishes on Amazon if you buy my book and Amazon takes it from you PM I will send said customer a epub version for free.
Is there a FOSS OS for Kindles?
No but you can jailbreak them, and their OS is linux-based; unfortunately if it's a new Kindle or newish with an up to date firmware, you might have to wait for someone to release a new jb method. With a jb you can install Koreader (which alone can do everything useful), but also people (mobileread forums) have compiled a working Python library and a terminal with bash..mostly useful to show off :) you can run neofetch
If you're like me and need Koreader (has impeccable pdf reflow and stardict support), a Kobo is way easier, and you don't have to wait
With a jb you can install Koreader
So yes?
It's a powerful program but not a complete OS replacement
Oh, so it's like a sideloaded Kindle app?
Yes exactly! On Kindles to install that app we need a jailbreak (and the procedure will depend on device and firmware version, since we are trying to circumvent Amazon limits), most of the OS stays the same and you can still use the normal "reader" app.
Of course if you are already satisfied by the normal reader all you need to do to gain more freedom is managing your books with Calibre on a computer, it'll take care of converting to kindle format if you put an epub in it, and send it to device, with just one click. My dad does this after I showed him once or twice and he's not techy at all.
I do.
There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books
Imagine where corpo can take your property because you did something they did not like....
Now open your eyes, peasants.
Imagine where corpo can take your property
Brave to assume that just because you paid money for something you own it.
The lesson is don't get in bed with corpos who hold custody of your property...
Custody is 9/10th of the property law anyway ;)