Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
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Like I believe generally everyone needs . waffle eating books should imaginatively teach evil
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I’m glad I started my Amazon boycott earlier. I could’ve lost a lot more e-books.
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It's been a while since I've heard about libgen and aa - and actually i'm not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i've always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns
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It depends, sometimes you can "buy" digital ownership from these places in the form of DRM-free files. If you are able to download the DRM-free file and make a reliable backup of it, then I could call that actual ownership. This is how I approach my music and ebook libraries. I don't do subscriptions for streaming anything but TV.
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As someone who likes to have a fallback way of purchasing digital content that I can remove DRM from, this annoys me.
I can still purchase mp3 and flac files from various online retailers, and I can rip bluray for my movies and tv shows, but now I need a new place to purchase ebooks that are downloadable. Anyone have any recommendations? The first few independent retailers i've found seem to require their own apps.
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I download books from my library to my kindle. It goes through Amazon though, so I assume I am also impacted by this BS.
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It shouldn’t. The DRM is on the Amazon book file format. The books I get from my library are usually epub format.
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what is your p2p method, out of curiosity?
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I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly
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True, though such services are in the extreme minority at this point.
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any good trackers for good linux iso availability?
with torrenting i sometimes can't find some more obscure distros i'm looking for...
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Kobo, Barnes & Noble, ebooks.com
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The Kindle app needs to be a specific version, and sadly the one needed for MacOS to grab the by Calibre dedrm-able files from Kindle doesn't work anymore.
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As a rule I don't announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.
I'll DM you
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Bandcamp is great for music downloads
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some FAA handbooks
Just light reading...
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From them perhaps.
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Sounds to me like Amazon is reducing the value proposition of their product. For me, additional roadblocks to being able to enjoy something they way I want when I have paid for it reduces the value of the product itself.
For example, if a DRM free book in an standards compatible format costs $20, then the DRM version I can still download for offline viewing is worth $10. The DRM version I can't download is now worth more like $1-$5 depending on how badly I would want to read it while still supporting the author.
And yes, ebooks from the major sellers aren't worth much to me and I rarely rent (because you're not really buying) them.
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I'm a flight instructor, so...yes.
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Straight up theft. In a more functional government, there would be an agency with real teeth that you could report them to for that kind of behavior, with something other than fines-as-the-cost-of-doing-business.
