I hear you saying that, but the books I want to buy are never on those sites.
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generic_computers@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
To all the people who are saying “I’ll just pirate books,” you are aware you can buy eBooks from places that Amazon, right?
Have a look at 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.
magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com 3 days ago
daytonah@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Does that provide epub when baught? Or does it lock you in with their DRM app?
generic_computers@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I thought you could load bookshop.org eBookd onto a Kindle, but it seems they have their own DRM and you need to use their own app…
Some of their books are DRM free, but not all. I thought they all were, but it turns out I was wrong.
So… maybe even bookshop.org isn’t the best option for Kindles.
I guess there really is only one option left…
daytonah@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I went researched a few years ago and concluded that there is no option for writers to be guaranteed “no piracy” and that’s why they prefer having paperbooks. (That is also after brainstorming with a few people to publish my own book if it were…) and those days i was trying to find an important book in electronic format and could not find it anywhere, the paper 10th edition version (which i eventually bought) is like 1000 pages and the e version i found was 200 ish pages summary. So my sad conclusion was that i just need a big’ol scanner at home, just so that i can scan everything that i buy in paper just because i could then keep it personally on my e-reader (and having destroyedbinding of each book i buy lmao)… is that too much to ask… my wife says no… lol
magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com 3 days ago
Addendum: that specific site is dog shit. Imagine thinking you just bought an ebook but instead you bought a lease to some DRM shit that only works on their app.
EPUB or GTFO.