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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Makes it harder to pirate or share, so more profit with the benefit of censorship. They could make updates to material on the fly if they wanted. Assuming you need an Internet connection, no privacy and limits where you can read. It's hard because you can't avoid things like AWS but you can stop paying them directly. Sadly, even now, it's hard to convince people to give up on Amazon and similar corps.