Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
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"your" ebooks. – You never owned them in the first place. And if buying isn't owning, questionably acquired ebooks aren't stolen.
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Good thing then that I never, ever in my entire life have given Amazon a single cent, nor will I.
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No it isn't
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I was able to export (you'll have to remove DRM via plugin) all of my Kindle ebooks into epub using "Method 2a" of this guide:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It's can be a massive pain with some metadata issues, but at least it works.
I've been meaning to do this for years, but have always been too lazy.
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I wonder if this is a response to someone jailbreaking all kindles ever the other day
Fuck kindles, get a different brand of ereader that just runs stripped android
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The kobo unes run Linux ootb, and they are as easy to install something like pluto on as an android one, but I still prefer them because I can do all kinds of shinanigans with the command line
Also if they are too expensive for you, just get a used one, as long as they have a backlight you can read just as well on them as a libra color
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Some have speculated it's complying in advance with stealth editing of books to remove whatever content has been decided to be censored. If you can't download the original copy and keep it, they can change the one you have and make it seem like the original text never existed.
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Oh, they are, are they?
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Check if it’s available on your library website first, for the sake of the author.
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One more reason not to buy ebooks from Amazon.
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It's because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.
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Honestly? That’s pretty amazing.
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Have you paid for a service that uses AWS though? Youay never know if you've funded the big A.
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Good luck accessing my ebooks.
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Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
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I have hundreds of books in my kindle. But 0 on Amazon.
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Very happy I got a PocketBook instead of the store locked alternatives
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Perfection is the enemy of better
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How is that legal?
