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• generic_computers@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨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…

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  • daytonah@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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