Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.
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There is a whole community of people out there who will pretty much refuse to buy brand new electronics. And thats for very obvious and valid reasons.
Kindles can be found for dirt cheap if not free 2nd hand. And so many users have a kindle for this reason. Myself included. Id never throw out or discard an electronic device that continues to work. For the same obvious reasons as why i dont buy new ones.
And so this information is super relevant and important to users like me. Regardless of how much people like you might be convinced that "we had it coming" or whatever.
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When you jailbrake the kindle you can download the ebooks from Amazon to the PC?
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Where the hell are you buying books that they cost 50 lol
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they choose their business model, I choose my customer model.
Ooh, this is very pithy. I like it. I will use it.
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That's my situation too. Got the Kobo Clara Color as a Christmas present for myself (the color was like $10 more, so what the hell) after resisting eBooks for years, and I really love it.
They take almost any ebook type, but they do have their own proprietary format, KEPUB. That's what their own store uses. Thankfully, Calibre can convert to and from it. Due to Kobo being able to more easily handle zooming in to images and things like that with KEPUB, it's sometimes worth converting.
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I'm really glad that I downloaded my entire Kindle library a month ago, and converted it all to either CBZ or Epub.
Fuck Bezos.
One tip for the audiobook-fans: Download your Audible books while you still can. It's only a matter of time before Bezos locks those downloads too.
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Thing is, the pinenote is €610, and the kindle paperwhite is £160, cheaper on discount.
I get your point and there’s a reason why the kindle is as cheap as it is, but I can understand why someone would see those prices and go for the kindle.
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Seems like everything in ebooks is currently moving to the "you don't own anything and be happy" approach.
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And PocketBook. Don't see them locking down anytime soon.
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E-paper devices with Android are usually way underpowered for the platform, easier to just use the phone for such things.
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They are allowed to do that? It's your ebooks, not their ebooks.
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Shhh he's a pirate, he has no concept of how much media costs.
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Or go for the Kobo, which is similarly priced as the Kindle. The Kobo Clara Colour is £150
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According to them you only have a license to those ebooks.
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And Amazon owns them? I would be furious as a publisher.
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It eludes me how people pay to 'buy' something that they cannot download in the first place. If I don't have it as a file on my computer, I don't own it. You wouldn't pay to 'buy' a physical item if that meant only being able to look at it at the store, without the ability to take it home and do whatever you want with it.
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And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files.
Unfortunately currently broken for the latest version of Kindle for PC, which switched to a different encryption scheme. It also uses KFX file format that nobody likes, which fortunately can be converted to EPUB with another plugin, but de-DRMing doesn't seem to work right now.
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Nice. Mines an older Clara I bought about 5 years ago. I personally don't have the use for a color screen, but for $10 I guess why not!
I installed KO Reader as soon as I got it and never looked back, it supports standard epubs. Not as pretty as the standard Nickel (?) OS but more customisable.
I love having an e-reader. I read so much more because of it. Much more convenient, not having to worry about heavy books, holding open pages, no need to worry about proper lighting for reading. Light and small enough to bring everywhere. I will buy another immediately once this one dies.
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I agree. However, some dishonest services allow to download, but downloaded file is DRM. It is even worse.
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If buying is not owning…
