Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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My library only offers ebooks via CloudLibrary, which doesn’t support e-readers. You have to read everything in their mobile app which scrolls instead of turning pages. It’s like someone custom built an app to be horrible for reading books in bed.
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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.
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Using calibre to just upload books directly.
I'll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Pirate the books, then donate the purchase price directly to the authors to bypass the middleman.
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Do the non-kindle e-readers link to Libby? I may eventually try to get my wife and I off our kindles and she uses that when she can.
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Piracy is also a "We're underpaid and can't afford shit in this economy" issue. It's ethcal to pirate since the rich steals from us all the time.
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Answered in the sibling, but this basically: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
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I send epubs via email. I didn't see any reference to that. Is that still going to be possible?
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100% yes on Nook, and as far as I know Kobo hasn't dropped compatibility.
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Ah, my deepest apologies. I was not aware there was absolutely no issue or threat to anyone because you didn't connect a kindle to the network either.
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there is nothing stopping them
how can they do anything?
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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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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.
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Thank you!
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I have access to the same information as you, so unfortunately, I don't know.
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I wonder how long before this US administration makes "copyright infringement" a felony...
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And then copyrights all pending legislation...
