Don’t use amazon.
Safe the media, it is a service to humanity, hoarding saves our history.
Not if they just trash your harddrives after you die but I hoard for the same reason 🫥
They can’t destroy them all. Some books survived the Nazis as well.
Whenever companies pull especially greedy bullshit it just makes me want to find the content another way…
The game Avowed just pulled this “advanced release” bullshit, pay $20 more and get access a few days early. Had they simply released the game I’d have bought it, but after seeing that I said fuck you I’ll find it another way and honestly I’m glad I did. As one review put it: it’s aggressively “meh.”
Oh damn, I hadn’t heard of that with the Avowed thing. That’s a Bethesda/Microsoft sleezeball move right there.
I think people in general need to just default to “finding content another way”, because companies should never be given the benefit of the doubt IMO.
Case in point is Obsidian, they are supposed to be one of the good ones.
To be fair to obsidian the distribution choices have nothing to do with the people who make the game part. You can have great devs with a greedy publisher.
Kindle user, no Amazon account, only bought one book and own hundreds. Jailbreak your kindles or buy an android based ereader.
Or buy a Kobo instead and it just works. Bonus, no money to Amazon at all.
You don’t even need to jailbreak them, just import them through a PC to your kindle or email them to your kindle email address.
Well see if its possible after an update
Should definitely be. My mother has the Paper White 6" and I am able to transfer all my zlib EPUB and MOBIs through USB with no issues.Nevermind, I think I misunderstood and you meant it more like, “We’ll see how long they allow this feature”
(and for whatever reason strikethrough markdown isn’t working…)
True, I’m ditching my Kindle as soon as I can. I already cancelled my Amazon account and will no longer support them
Thats a good idea, my next big spend will be an android ereader. Turning off WiFi on kindle limits so much functionality.
I’m going to see what I can do to crack my Kindle open for now, but yeah I’m done with Amazon.
My Kindle email via way of calibre has not been working these past few weeks, returns some misk internal error from Amazon’s end… :(
Kobo is where it’s at! It’s Canadian and not owned by Amazon.
Was Canadian, its owned by a Japanese company since 2010
They retained a large portion of their staff and are still headquartered in Toronto, though.
I hate to knock it as a product, but I compared a lot of the books I bought on Kindle and - unless I’m missing something - the selection on Kobo seems quite limited in comparison.
It seems that Amazon is using Kindle Unlimited you lock authors into exclusivity. This reeks of monopoly abuse but of course nobody is going to do anything about that.
Pirate the books and support authors another way
To quote a post from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155
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There have been several threads about this on HN over the past few days and months. Just to avoid the confusion that seems to follow these, a few notes:
(1) This is the “Download and Transfer” option where Amazon allowed users to select books they had purchased a license to and download them from the Amazon website.
(2) The ability to transfer books from your computer to your Kindle using a USB cable is not affected.
(3) The ability to send non-Amazon-licensed ePubs using the Send to Kindle email feature is not affected.
Still seems pretty bad though
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You think no one has USB cables?
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Well now I’m glad I’ve never bought a kindle book.
Amazon will remove your ability to download the books you boughtAmazon is relying on P2P technology to provide you with the books you bought, as well as the books you haven’t boughtFTFY.
xD fair
ha, joke’s on him, i never bought any ebooks from Amazon
The only legitimate books I have on my Kindle are library books, anyway
I’m not entirely sure why places do this. It will cause distrust in your product and cause people to find the service elsewhere or for free.
90% of the people I know who use kindle products all OTA their purchases to their device. If they have “illicit” books on their devices, I put them there.
Be careful. It’s about to turn 451. I’ll be surprised, if I last long enough, if it don’t click this year.
Yep. I used to be able to buy an amazon kindle book. Download it, crack it, then read on any non-kindle device I had.
Now they don’t let us download the books. So now I won’t buy anymore kindle books. :)
