Amazon is changing what is written in books
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Pleasing the copyright holders. I don't know how it is for the Dutch national library, but with a system used by many libraries in the US there's a cost to the library based on the number of times it's checked out, so more revenue for the copyright holder and the digital middle man. Allowing you to have the e-book indefinitely would be, at least in their minds, no different than giving it away.
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This could be solved in other ways. For example, the software can simply track what % of the books are actually read without this extra step of borrowing and returning. Just like when you listen to music on streaming services.
Imagine if you had to select the specific album in a streaming service and choose to borrow it for x days, having to “return” it and borrow again if you wanted to keep listening, and being limited to 4 albums at a time.
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I use Tutanota for my email
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And also if you want books that can’t be altered buy a paper book
The books on my 1st generation kindle have been there 15 years unchanged. Just don't connect devices to the internet that don't need to be connected to the internet.
The "internet of things" that was sold to us is just a way for corporations to exert more control. I am pro-technology. I think an ebook reader is infinitely more useful and valuable than a paper book - I can fit tens of thousands of books on my Kindle, more than I could read in a lifetime, and a full charge lasts more than a month at a time.
I can use whatever font I want, I can scale the size to what I want. I can change the margins, place bookmarks, gives a % of how far I am in a book, skip to chapters, etc.
Like, it's objectively better than a book.
But it doesn't need to be connected to the internet.
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Not exactly aphantasia, though some kinds of imagination are close to that for me. Rather that something remote is very hard to imagine, while triggers, like sounds and smells and physical feelings and harmonic progressions, make something very easy to imagine.
So if I know that I have to do something or else my head rolls off, the deadline being in 3 hours, I won't be as concentrated as the typical person.
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Uh, title is a bit clickbaity, editorialized. Amazon isn't changing books yet, they are planning to make it possible for publishers to do so, I think, and also recoking ownership. And the video is not great either.
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Yep, but it’s not something I can do with one click on the sofa, which was my original point
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@lepinkainen @penquin Kobo has a basic browser so you probably could. I downloaded a few copyright-free books from standardebooks.org directly onto my Kobo the other day.
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I mean it's not an easy question to answer is it? How is my ideological position that 'nigger' is not acceptable and removing it makes the book suitable for modern readers any different from someone else's ideological position that, e.g., 'transgender' is not acceptable and removing it makes whatever book suitable for modern readers?
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Don’t use kindle? They aren’t the only ebook provider
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Does overdrive have only audio books or regular books, too?
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@penquin probably depends on your library but mine has plenty of normal books on there.
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I “could”, but it’s still a ton harder than just clicking “buy next book in series”
TBH it’s easier to plug calibre-web as a store in Kobo and just “acquire” all the books in all the series from … sources. Then you get the one click downloads easily
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@penquin to clarify, yes, it has loads of standard ebooks on there but it's up to your library how many copies, if any, of anything in the catalogue to make available. My library usually has about 3-4 copies of anything popular and you get them for two weeks, but you can delay the hold if your turn comes up and you're busy reading something else. If anything is crazy popular they will review and make more available to reduce the waiting time.
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Thank you
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So, Google before the IPO.
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Indeed, that's why i hate it that so many people here are raging about this while it's something both sides are doing...
I get all the Trump & conservatives hate, but sometimes this community is raging over something that's just done by both sides... So being outraged about it is pretty hypocritical....
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@Hossenfeffer @racemaniac n*r is deemed a slur *by the group it is used about*. "Transgender" is not. Changing references to be more inclusive/respectful of a group is very different to erasing the existence of a group entirely.
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There's a problem with this "give them what they want and they won't pirate" when it comes to Spotify, yt music, etc:
They can change the terms at any moment.
AKA enshittification.If you downloaded it or bought a CD? Ain't no enshittification.
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Quietly swapping your earlier edition with the current edition was not, however.
