Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

That was amusingly well timed:

thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that's been around for twenty fiveish years.

Please pass it forward: all Kindles can now be jailbroken

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!

To all the people who are saying "I'll just pirate books," you are aware you can buy eBooks from places that aren't Amazon, right?

Have a look at https://bookshop.org/ebooks You can buy books/eBooks and support local bookstores that aren't Barnes & Nobles or Amazon.

I'd suggest you download/archive your Kindle books and then buy your eBooks from elsewhere. You can still load those onto your Kindle.

Saying "I'm going to pirate because one specific website is changing its policy soon," is pretty stupid.

EDIT: Turns out I was wrong about bookshop.org, you actually can't load their eBooks into a Kindle. You need their app since they have their own DRM. Looks like I got all worked up about something without looking it up first.

See: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

I'll continue pirating, thanks.

I am sorry, what?

Turn on PC or phone. Download ebook from torrent site. Enjoy.

It's not difficult to switch?

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.

library genesis exists, people. anna's archive, anyone?

digital drm is the one fucking thing they push onto us that we don't actually have to fucking deal with. thanks to our team of rippers and crackers people who hate this system.

leave amazon. leave netflix. leave whatever fucking streaming service you subscribe to, and stop being sensitive about rich people's money.

If it's alright for Facebook, it's alright for me. Yoho

Well, you should not use Amazon anything. Valuable lesson learned.

I use a library app called Libby to read non torrented books. But I’m not sure if it’s available on the kindle. It’s good to support your local library, even if it’s only digitally

Am I an idiot for enjoying my Kindle Paperwhite as an eReader, while at the same time never actually buying books from Amazon?

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. Libation will help liberate your library into DRM-free files.

My solution was to just redownload all my books from z-lib after I bought them already.

In the meantime, hackers have just released a new jailbreak and made it a more open platform than ever :^)

I resisted eBooks for years, preferring physical books from the library or new/second hand stores. I got gifted a Kindle from a well meaning relative a few years ago and I have a small collection on there, mainly built up when I was commuting.

This news came just as I am backing up my own data, moving off of the big name Cloud services and going back to open source software. (In confession the convenience of M365 etc won me over so the last 10 or so years I fell into the trap!)

Anyway needless to say my 40(ish) Kindle books quickly got downloaded and archived this week. Thanks to Calibre I've also fixed the covers to a book series that suddenly got updated to an awful 'new hip' version! :)

I'm now intrigued about repurposing the Kindle hardware as it still works and I don't want it to go to waste, but with this and other recent events I'm done personally proving data or money to these big corporate companies as much as I possibly can.

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.

I wonder if this is at all related to the EU changes to eBook DRM standards, where the standard Kindle Adobe DRM isn't compliant

I heard there are ways to jailbreak all Kindles...

That's fucked.

So anyway self hosting Kavita to read everything in my browser is hella convenient.

This is why I never once purchased a book from Amazon even though I have a Kindle.

Pretty pumped to jailbreak it with the new jailbreak.

Repeat after me!.... En-shit-ti-fication!

I love my Kobo. I installed KO Reader on it and have Calibre for managing my ebooks.

Get all my ebooks from z-library or Anna's archive.

Wait, people who have Kindles buy their books from Amazon?

I always just got mine from a certain private mouse tracker.

It's not an accident that I download epubs and read them on Moon+.

Amazon signaled clearly years ago that their goal wasn't to make a convenient ebook reader, but to create an entire proprietary e-reading system designed solely to extract as much money as possible for as little value as possible. And this is just another step in that ongoing process.

It's not just Amazon. Libraries (and Libby, the app they use) are also making it difficult to do anything but read in a browser or use Kindle.

i buy most ebooks from a small local bookstore. for the rest there's still zlib

I've been downloading my books but most of them are DRM so I can't read them on anything BUT a Kindle. I've been thinking about getting another e-reader but I fear I'm trapped.

Already been doing this, but I think this will finally light the fire under my ass to move to a boox device for all my reading I've got the big boox, which I use for sheet music, and quite like it, so the smaller ones are no brainers

I'm so in love with Anna.....

My favorite sites for actual ebooks are Humble Bundle and Fantastic. But these are predominantly tech books. No idea where I’d get good fiction in epub today.

The only surprise here is that it took them this long to do it.

If this doesn't help physical book sales, nothing will.

Quick shout out to oceanofpdf

C'mon United States, do the anti-trust thing! You used to be so good at it!

This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.

They are allowed to do that? It's your ebooks, not their ebooks.

Been using an Onyx Boox Nova 3 for maybe 8 4 years now. It runs android, drm free everything (edit: it has no store really, it is basically empty. Supports virtually any filetype you can read. Epub, pdf, mobi, cbz). For some android could be a distraction 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.