Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
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I wonder if this is a response to someone jailbreaking all kindles ever the other day
Fuck kindles, get a different brand of ereader that just runs stripped android
Some have speculated it's complying in advance with stealth editing of books to remove whatever content has been decided to be censored. If you can't download the original copy and keep it, they can change the one you have and make it seem like the original text never existed.
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Oh, they are, are they?
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"your" ebooks. – You never owned them in the first place. And if buying isn't owning, questionably acquired ebooks aren't stolen.
Check if it’s available on your library website first, for the sake of the author.
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One more reason not to buy ebooks from Amazon.
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I wonder if this is a response to someone jailbreaking all kindles ever the other day
Fuck kindles, get a different brand of ereader that just runs stripped android
It's because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.
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Good thing then that I never, ever in my entire life have given Amazon a single cent, nor will I.
Honestly? That’s pretty amazing.
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Good thing then that I never, ever in my entire life have given Amazon a single cent, nor will I.
Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you've funded the big A.
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Good luck accessing my ebooks.
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Good luck accessing my ebooks.
Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
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Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
I have hundreds of books in my kindle. But 0 on Amazon.
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Very happy I got a PocketBook instead of the store locked alternatives
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Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you've funded the big A.
Perfection is the enemy of better
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How is that legal?
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Buy elsewhere, or simple look up epubs and mail them to kindle
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I think with applications, like Calibre its relatively painless to save the whole library, if someone is ready to jump ship. Now its the perfect time.
I personally use a Kobo without the online features, which is fantastic, but there are many great Kindle alternatives without the corporate spyware bullshit.
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How is that legal?
Because in the kindle store you're not purchasing the book but a license to the book.
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It's because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.
I don't think that will work with the .kfx file type. At least it didn't for me.
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Perfection is the enemy of better
A wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat.
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I was able to export (you'll have to remove DRM via plugin) all of my Kindle ebooks into epub using "Method 2a" of this guide:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It's can be a massive pain with some metadata issues, but at least it works.
I've been meaning to do this for years, but have always been too lazy.
Windows only. Le sigh.
