Amazon is changing what is written in books
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Why not too old? I bought 4 gen 4 & 5 kindles off ebay for like $20 on purpose. I hate backlights and they still work great.
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The man who made that video is annoying. The story he read out was from the twits by Roald dahl, it was a few years back that those changes were made. Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism. So whoever is in charge of his works wanted to make them more modern and less insulting which misses the point of Dahl but anyway.
They’ve done it with Enid blyton books too. In one of hers they have a dog called the n word so probably more necessary with her work lol.All amazon have done is update the digital edition to the match the latest edition. There’s a million things to hate Amazon for you don’t have to make things up. And also if you want books that can’t be altered buy a paper book, you own them and they don’t run out of electricity.
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Have you, as a foreigner, been caught up by the American political-polarization bug^tm^!? Here are a few warning signs that you may be affected.
- Do you find yourself often injecting "left-wing" or "right-wing" into titles?
- Do you have a perceived notion that anything negative being said must involve a certain political party?
- Do you feel the need to bring Trump up in a post that has nothing to do with him?
- Do you find yourself in the comments blaming "sides" without having read the article or watched the video?
- Have you found yourself demanding answers or change that's addressed in the post? (he literally brings up Dahl as his first example)
If you suspect that you or a loved one suffer from this syndrome, please turn off the devices and go outside.
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That's still not OK
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Heh. Even funnier to me, as I'm currently reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which is set in an abbey that has monks who copy manuscripts.
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Been using 10th gen kindle, 5.17.1 firmware, as my daily driver. It's not jailbroken, use calibre server to download my alternately sourced ebooks, convert to .mobi as needed.
I looked at Winterbreak. Decided not to fool with it as I can still sail with stock.
Any advantage to a jailbreak other than future proofing against side loading being disabled?
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Yeah, I'm with you on this one.
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Aphantasia?
I think there's more than one kind of imagination. It's like the opposite of 'thinking outside the box'.
Theirs is more like 'wow this box is big! I'm gonna get inside a smaller one'.
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Self hosting your email server, are you? How many hours a month does that take?
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I did it a long time ago.
The best time to change was 5-10 years ago. The second best time is now. -
Not a recommendation, saying mine is not too old. Random info as part of discussion.
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I think that's pretty much it. Future proofing seems to be the idea I'm getting, that and customisations/custom firmware. I used to have custom screensavers on one many years ago, which I'm going to do again.
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Printing new editions of a book was always a thing
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"The word is CELEBRATE!" sobs the old monk.
I don't get the punchline.
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Except a physical library can only hold so many books, they don’t have most of the books I want and you need to return them. A physical library is not useful to me.
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Monks are celibate. But if someone were to transcribe that incorrectly...
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Doing it silently without consent is definitely not okay. Or if they do such a thing, they should notify the user and give an option to rollback if they wanted. That’s what a company that respect users would do.
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Thank you. Do you have another kobo with higher DPI that you can compare it to? I'm very weird when it comes to this. I can see pixels very easily and then would never be able to focus anymore. lol. I can't even use anything but 4k screens on my laptops and PC, that's how bad I am.
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At the same time, they unfortunately can’t imagine things being better. That’s why societies differ a lot between cultures in different parts of the world.
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Like… if the book is digital, why do you have to borrow and return? This makes no sense. They want to replicate a bad experience that doesn’t need to exist, what’s the point of that?
