Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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Aah, I didn't know...but at least it's store and format agnostic, which Kobo definitely is not.
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It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit
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Just swapped to a Libra Colour last month and I’m feeling better about the choice every day
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Massage them…?
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I’ve got a kobo Clara HD with plenty of pirated books on it, works pretty well, would recommend
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there is nothing stopping them from doing the same bullshit with firmware updates to the kobos and drm updates to the store and apps.
I never connect the Libra to any network, how can they do anything? I did actually install some updates since there were a few annoying bugs, but I just downloaded the firmware on the pc from https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html and updated it offline. Now all those bugs seem fixed and poor Kobo still hasn't seen the interwebs
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You know I am starting to think going to the library is a better idea than buying their products. You can literally just walk in.
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Well fuck... Guess i'll need too look at what is available for ebook downloads i my arr stack to get books for my kobo.
The kobo store is mostly useless, and there are limited options available for buying ebooks here, so amazon has been the best option for likely finding what i was looking for.
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This is why I almost never get any Digital Book. The only digital books I have are books that were free either originally or through a giveaway, or that were severely discounted and I already owned physically. That's also why I don't buy movies or TV series digitally. You're just renting these things, and you're only renting them when you have an internet connection.
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You can download and keep countless ebooks from https://annas-archive.org/
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I have a Clara Color (it was like $10 more for the color version and it gives me a pretty screen when it's powered off) and I absolutely love it. I was not a fan of ebooks until I got it. Turns out what I was not a fan of was all the other ebook readers I tried. I'm reading books on it more frequently than I ever read physical books.
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Technically, official Kobo books are KEPUB, which is their own proprietary version of EPUB they use for their store, but they can read EPUB and other formats just fine. And if they don't, Calibre solves that problem.
(Converting books to KEPUB is sometimes worth it, especially if they have illustrations mixed in with the text, because then you are able to do things more easily like zoom in to the image on the reader.)
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100%. I have always pirated, but the amount of things I pirated went way, way down when Netflix had a decent library of things to watch and was affordably priced.
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The Kobo Clara Color's screen doesn't look any different to me with non-color eBooks than their non-color version. The only thing that's really different is that the book cover you see when it's powered off is in color. Now I will admit that e-ink color is not very good, but it doesn't ruin the experience of reading just a regular book.
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Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.
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I'm extremely sensitive to the screen door effect on the color e-ink screens I'm not sure that there is a reason why but some people don't seem nearly as bothered by it as others.
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I stopped pirating altogether thanks to Spotify, Netflix and Steam.
But now I've cancelled Netflix and I have a 24 TB NAS filled with movies
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resist.
Stop buying whatever it is that Amazon/Meta/Google/Etc sell. They will not stand for you. They will not respect you.
At some points, it may seem like they changed and that they are now good. They are not. They will never be. Resist them.
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Interesting that you don't recommend Kobo Color. I was thinking of gifting my mother a kobo but I might just go for a BW version.
