Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoI’m too lazy, I just borrow from the library and use them on the device. Stripping the DRM takes some level of effort, and I don’t intend to keep the books anyway, so I just let the DRM do its thing and turn off the wifi so they don’t disappear until I’m done w/ them.
Works fine on my SO’s Kindle, and I’m considering getting a Kobo and hope it’ll work there.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t like the surveillance this would indirectly cause. My guess would be that a library app would need an internet connection… And I would not trust my reader to ever be online.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It needs an internet connection for the initial download and DRM check, but then you can go offline. So it doesn’t need a constant internet connection, only when you want to load new books onto it. I’ll have books on hold and checked out between times I access the internet to load books on (so I’ll load a few, go offline, once I’m done go online and fetch the books I’ve checked out in the meantime).
I have no issue w/ my eReader being online occasionally to fetch updates or get new books.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, my issue is needing internet connection at all - as well as having my reading in the library app itself being spied on, even if my reader did have an OS I trust to be online.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And for me, I honestly don’t care too much if Libby knows what I read. If I did care, I’d just get DRM-free books, either legally or not, and bypass the library entirely.