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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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    Kobo connected to calibre web is the ultimate freedom/privacy ereader

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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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      That is no different than Kobo. Thus far, Rakuten have been pretty good about not caring more than the bare minimum. But 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 am finally migrating from kindle to kobo (tried kindle to boox last year and it was bad...) but I am under no illusions that I am just hoping one company is better than another. I mean, the other is Amazon so it is a pretty safe bet. But still.

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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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              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’ve got a kobo Clara HD with plenty of pirated books on it, works pretty well, would recommend

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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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                • roofuskit@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                  Kobo and Nook ebooks are still ePUB and easy enough to free from their DRM.

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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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                  • fartswithanaccent@fedia.ioF [email protected]

                    Reminder that piracy is a service issue.

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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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                      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.

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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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                        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.

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                        Yeah the companies obsoleting stuff are never worried about cutting off customers anyway. Fuck em.

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                        • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                          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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                          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.

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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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                                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.

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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.

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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 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.

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                                    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 calibre

                                      This 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.

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                                        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.
                                        I do enjoy the page turn animation, does boox have it too?

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                                          I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?

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                                          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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