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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That's fucked.

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

New kindle jailbreak you say?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (13 children)

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

Supposedly works on all Kindles, I haven't actually done a deep dive yet, just have it bookmarked since yesterday.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Piracy is the answer to the corpo over reach.

Deny the parasite profit... You are funding your enemy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Are you buying ebooks in a physical store? How does that work?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Overdrive (which is Libby) integrates directly into the Kobo OS so you can borrow books directly on the device instead of the roundabout way you have to do it on the Kindle.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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