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Typing too fast - clarification: even though it may be an old book on your Kindle, bought years ago, it may already be converted into kfx format on your Kindle device. So if you want to keep it 'portable' for your own future devices, you know what to do.

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I'm sure I know the answer, but do you know if this applies to books bought through comixology?

I just saw this, it's a guide to jailbreak your Kindle. There is an associated Hacker News & Reddit thread. I don't have any Kindle but thought you guys might be interested. kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking...

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We should also be wary about Audible downloads to a phone

Yet another example of why I have avoided all things Amazon for as long as possible.

It's Canadian, too.

All kindle books are downloaded & converted. Haven’t bought from them in over a year but hubby does. His books a weird but they are now my downloaded-screw-you-amazon weird books. Next up, audible.

What?!?

Thanks for this. I had no flippin idea! The greed of these people. It’s never enough!

bsky.app/profile/andy...

I don't own a Kindle, but have delivered purchases to my iPad and read them through the Kindle app. Can they be deleted from my iPad? Or does it not matter since I'm reading in the app?

Well fuck me running...more shit at the shit show...aaargh!

I have a kobo libra color, it’s nice if you like things with color, but the tradeoff is the screen isn’t quite as perfectly clear. Pretty direct integration with Libby, even if it’s a little wonky.

it's wild to me that amazon completely eliminated kindles with buttons - i guess we must be in the minority - but on the other hand i'm glad because as my oasis was slowly dying it got me off my ass to leave that ecosystem

I don't like swiping either but tapping to change pages is tolerable to me in exchange for a smaller build and more portability

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I would say that about 90% of the ebooks I borrow from Libby work on my Kobo just fine. There's a screen on the Kobo that lets you set up the link between them. There are a few weird edge cases - newer books not being available yet, or sometimes I get a UK version (?) - but it's worth it to me.

I have reposted, can you repost some of my recent posts?

Getting there … I have to move a couple of sites on AWS first! Two Kindles in the house, but let’s face it, they have always sucked. Going for straight ePubs.

When the download feature is removed you can only read the books you own as long as you keep paying your subscription.

Thanks. Hadn’t heard.

This is the hero that bezos wants to hush

lmaooo

I was just thinking about this sort of thing and little did I know, it's already an established field with published literature x.com/tslycha/stat...

You can do the downloads now and sock them away for later. That’s the only part that actually time sensitive.

i'm with you, and on top of that, e-ink color isn't even all that good yet. the only reason i bought the kobo libra colour is that it has physical page turn buttons, which i love

FWIW, I have the Kobo app on an iPad.

Same for me. Not in the budget right now.

If buying isn't owning piracy is not stealing!

I use Chirp I like it very much

Screenshots, that’s what I do

What about those of us who've only used the Kindle app? I've got over a 1000 comic books thanks to Amazon's destruction of Comixology, and when I try to download something, it keeps telling to I don't have a compatible device & to get the free Kindle reading app...which I already have on my phone.

I procrastinated and just did it tonight, downloaded over 1000 kindle books on my account and saved to DRM free EPUB format. Thanks for the heads up (though I did see it elsewhere).

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Use @bookshop-org.bsky.social and @thestorygraph.com instead.

Same sh*t with Steam and computer games.

Just told my GenX sons this. Stop streaming, they're selling all your data on what your streaming and you don't own anything. When I can't use my Kindle for library books anymore, it will go in the trash.

That's the plan with everything - reel you in like a fish, then move the goalposts.

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And you're making the authors who create those ebooks poorer, too

“Culture shouldn’t exist only for those who can afford it”

Yes DL now! 2 reasons actually- 1 you may want to use another device someday and won't be able to and 2- the regime may make them remove "questionable" content and it would be very good to have a backup. I downloaded all of mine today because my Kindle works now but it won't forever and fuck Amazon.

Buy s book!

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Yep, just giving a push to other people who might see this and think they don’t have time to get a reader first, etc.

I am a little confused. I have ebooks I have purchased via the Kindle app on my Android phone. I dont use a Kindle. I download the ebooks just to read them. I dont subscribe to Amazon. Do I need to be concerned?

Stop giving money to Amazon. Stop giving attention to Twitter. If you don't want to be ruled by oligarchs, then starve the beast.

Boy am I glad I went with a kobo instead of a kindle when I bought my first ereader a month ago

This is NOT a customer-friendly decision, and Amazon should be ashamed of locking people out of using other ebook readers even though many of its devices are technically pretty decent.

Buh-by Amazon books.

Unable to download from macOS via the USB option as it tells me I don’t have a Kindle account, in spite of having a logged-in Kindle app open on a USB-connected iPhone. Maybe I’m missing something

libgen lets you download a backup

Or buy books from a local bookstore and simply cut out the wrong/greedy middleman

Good to know, thanks!

Paper is the best option, I guess most people read at max two books at the same time anyway.

Happy to be rid of kindle and Amazon

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ebooks have helped plenty of people re-start reading; don't knock it

I'll occasionally pull a book off a shelf that I first read when I was a school kid. Just having the collection on a shelf keeps the stories alive at a glance. I've never been able to embrace the e-reader, because it always feels like the stories vanish the instant I put it down.

I'm happy that they're doing this - I've been kinda-sorta planning on ditching my Kindle and going for a less-evil alternative, but the expected tedium of downloading all my books & transferring them made it easy to put off. Thank you Jeff Bezos for giving me a hard deadline!

What are some dreaded that are not Amazon and reasonably priced? I want to find one soon.

Thanks. I will do this!

How do I download my audible?

Be customer obsessed but make it impossible for them to use any other retailers.

Interesting! How would that work (technically)? What software would one use to offer/sell ebooks themselves?

Whelp, that figures. I knew I made the right choice stripping the DRM out of all of them. Plus as a Kobo owner, this makes Amazon even more useless to me. Fuck you, Jeff Bezos.

Because poor Jeff Bezos doesn’t have enough money.

Fuck Amazon.

i have a friend called libby, and i can confirm, she is good with books

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Thanks for this.

If you're worried about losing your ebooks, download this free app to your computer, hook USB up to your Kindle, and download onto your computer. Computer. You can also change the .EXT from AWS to Mobi, to ePub, and five or six other variations calibre-ebook.com

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I went to Kobo last year. It's much more flexible on what it can use as an ebook format. There are instructions to convert Kindle books to Kobo online. Once converted, you own the ebook file, and you can share it.

A lot of replies are talking about the possible authoritarian motives that are behind this, such as having the ability to remove books from your devices or alter content without your consent. But greed plays a larger role here: to lock you into the ecosystem and make it harder to move to another.

Well I guess my week just got a whole lot busier than anticipated.

Psst @ikapoz.bsky.social

@jar52.bsky.social Don't know if your e-reader is a Kindle, but you might be interested.

Or you could just go to your public library and borrow that book, read it and return it for free.

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Or, you can see if your public library are using the Libby or Hoopla apps and download free. Also, Kanopy for movies.

The FAQ says that as long as the purchase method is US based it should work anywhere. bookshop.org/info/ebooks

I buy quite a bit from them in other areas too, and whilst me taking my custom elsewhere is totally insignificant, over time others might also feel the same way. They might have the monopoly online but there are other upcoming options.

Kept regretting getting a Kobo and wished I got a Kindle instead but now I don’t

Thank you Andy, I didn't know about this function and Bezos being able to just steal the books I paid for has been bugging the crap out of me. I have thousands of books so it's going to take a while to download them, but I WILL. He's not stealing from me! I bought those books. I didn't "rent" them!

I didn't even realize that was a thing. Thanks for the heads-up.

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I don't know if this works with newer kindles, but older ones can be hooked up to a computer with a USB cable and the book files can be pulled off it that way. (I sort of wish I'd realized that before I downloaded my library 1 book at a time off Amazon).

I guess I’ll be going back to paper books. Cancelled my kindle and anything to do with Amazon🇨🇦

Thanks for the heads-up - I will be doing that tonight. Think I have already downloaded most of what I own but getting right on that.

Not that I know of.

Who?