Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.
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According to their site and a couple others, they have recently started selling again and with what looks to be some variant of Debian on it.
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Quick shout out to oceanofpdf
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My solution was to just redownload all my books from z-lib after I bought them already.
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A lot of books money goes to not rich people though
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How would that help here? The only thing Amazon is removing is the ability to download your purchased eBooks to your PC.
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Repeat after me!.... En-shit-ti-fication!
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It helps because you regain that feature when you jailbreak...
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And I have a bigger reader, since most of my library are pdf/djvu scans and they'd look unreadable on a screen any smaller.
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Itβs a good piece of hardware. I do the same thing. Although I recently got a Kobo and I gotta say that I do prefer the kobo slightly better. Kindle is still good shit though
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The files now use a different kind of DRM that hasn't been defeated yet.
The purpose of using the soon to be removed feature was to get files with an older encryption that can be easily removed
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if you can afford it, wire the author the 50 bucks or so for the book, and explain why you did it. most of them will be thrilled to get the full 50 for the book, i bet.
if you can't, well they wouldnt have gotten any money anyway.
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Well, you should not use Amazon anything. Valuable lesson learned.
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Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner's wasn't hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.
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I've been monkey paw'd with my wish "Z library becoming the most convenient eBook platform"
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My library has used Libby for years. It's another version of Overdrive. My library books download to Kobo fine unless they're changing something else I don't know about.
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Been using an Onyx Boox Nova 3 for maybe 8 years now. It runs android, drm free everything. For some android could be a distractiin from reading, but the browser is slow enough to were you use it to hop on annas-archive, get a book and then quickly close it. File transfer via shared wifi or USB, good reader, some nice reading stats without needing any account. Recommend if anyone wants to jump the amazon ship.
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reMarkable, PineNote, Bookeen, etc...
I'm not saying anybody deserve to be mistreated ... but come on, at this point if you buy something from Amazon it's Stockholm syndrome. Just do NOT. It's that easy.
F*ck Bezos and other billionaires. Stop making them even richer from your pain. Stop your mind from being literally enslaved!
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Locked-in platform closing the door. How surprising.
Accepting DRM in the first place is the problem. Hard to avoid, but still. I just got a boox; great value, can't use adobe DRM. Didn't have any problem there. Of course, money is going everywhere except big "publishers", but that's hardly an issue; they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.
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Libraries (and Libby, the app they use) are also making it difficult to do anything but read in a browser or use Kindle.
Sadly too true. To be fair though I don't think ANY librarian want that.
Here in Belgium we have an online library ( lirtuel.be ) that isn't actually too bad. I looked it up and they say they provided ePub/PDF so I registered right away. Then... I discovered what they meant wasn't ePub/PDF but rather DRMed ePub/PDF (here is an example https://www.lirtuel.be/resources/67aaf2124e480409978b68fb with ePub logo on the top right). Anyway I contacted them explaining that my ebook reader (reMarkable) does not support DRM and thus I couldn't read the content. They pointed me to their documentation https://confluence.demarque.com/confluence/cantook-station/fr/faq/verrou-numerique-et-identifiant-adobe/qu-est-ce-qu-un-verrou-numerique-drm which implies it's all "normal" to use that. I insisted, they didn't reply.
Long story short, I'm either not using their service anymore or using DeGourou https://github.com/Bingwithyou/DeGourou to make the content legally loaned actually usable. Sad state of affairs but I'm convinced none of the actual librarians, namely people who care for making knowledge discoverable and accessible like that. I'm sure they've been coerced by same big publishers.
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I was thinking along the lines of if you already had them downloaded and wanted to switch off to something else
