Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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My libra 2 breaking just after they were discontinued will forever be an unhappy event. I know the libra colour exists but I can not stand color e-ink screens.
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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The specific devices impacted by this are pretty old (I think only the first and second gen ones? So at latest 2009), so honestly I doubt they're very worried about it.
Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.
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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.
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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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.
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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I just got a Kobo color (don't recommend the color feature; no book is ever going to use it except the red-letter Bible and House of Leaves) and gifted the old Kindle to a friend. I e-reader is an awesome gift actually because for a lot of people it's something they would never evenly in years take a chance on, but that they would love it if they tried.
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.
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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.
I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?
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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.
I'm farsighted and have an astigmatism, so I have to read with glasses, and maybe that's the issue, but I just held my Clara really close to my face and I don't notice any screen door effect.
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I read somwhere how to solve this
1 - factory reset
2 - deactivate wifi for life
3 - upload books with calibreThis will wipe out any content you have, as i understand
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I rarely use my Paperwhite Signature since I like my Boox Nova 2 more. The Kindle is mostly just for the serial note to strip DRM now via Calibre.
My wife recently joked that it’s my “Kindle Paperweight.” With this announcement I doubt I’ll buy anymore books from Amazon.
Hi, what do you like about boox nova? I have the Paperwhite (2022) and wondering if there's a better alternative that isn't Amazon.
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I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?
You could have made a better choice, I suppose. And some authors/editors do deserve the money.
Pirating is not necessarily resisting. Are you taking money from authors who really really need it? Or are you taking money from rich CEOs who are worsening the environment, future generations, etc?
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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.
Physical vs. DRMed digital is not a dichotomy. Personally for books, I do prefer paper ones - and mostly read in my language on paper. However, pretty much all non-fiction I read is in English, and getting it in paper would cost a fortune (English books are not sold here that much as we're not an English-speaking country, and shipping would likely cost more than the book itself).
As for movies and music - it's all digital DRMless as well, unlike books, there isn't even a functional difference between a file from a tracker vs. a file from a DVD, except that you wouldn't have to throw out a perfectly good disk after ripping.
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This is why you never connect your kindle to the internet. Calibre forever
I just tried Calibre hoping it would help me get the metadata in my library in order... But maybe I am stupid, but I don't understand the purpose of this software. It apparently can't choose the MTP device as your library, only a folder on your computer? And only push the books onto the reader? I don't get how that's massively different from just copypasting the files into the reader. Is the main point convenient metadata editing?..
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"You only have a license, you don't own them" for ebooks too?
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I read somwhere how to solve this
1 - factory reset
2 - deactivate wifi for life
3 - upload books with calibreThis will wipe out any content you have, as i understand
I upload books with Calibre and never had to reset anything. It’s great.
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I upload books with Calibre and never had to reset anything. It’s great.
I have a kindle, nut i never buy my books at Amazon. I just but them elsewhere, de-DRM then on calibration and copy them in the kindle. Not as comfortable, but okay for.me.
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I read somwhere how to solve this
1 - factory reset
2 - deactivate wifi for life
3 - upload books with calibreThis will wipe out any content you have, as i understand
You mixed up step 2, it's supposed to be "Install KoReader".
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That's why I avoided Kindle and picked a Kobo. Sure you can remove DRMs from the books you've bought. But at some point they could block you from doing that. They can change anything at anytime and there's nothing you can do about it.
It's pretty easy to jailbreak a Kindle and block firmware updates. But the fact that it is necessary in the first place sucks
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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.
You can also get ebooks from the library
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You can also get ebooks from the library
Some libraries offer large sections of the O'reilly Safari Bookshelf, a collection of educational tech books.
