Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is remarkable how many books available for free on Gutenberg are sold in the same format on Amazon (it’d be one thing if they were special editions, new translations etc, but they’re the same!)

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People out to make a quick buck are banking on suckers not knowing about Project Gutenberg, or failing to check it, or not wanting to do a couple of extra steps to get something onto their Kindle.

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shoutout to Anna.

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• Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Check out standard ebooks. They take public domain books and “clean” them up with really good typesetting, spelling fixes, and other things. All free too

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  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Standard is fantastic! The books are better quality than what they charge for on “marketplaces” and can be read for free or downloaded wholesale for a song. Add to that they host an opds catologue that fbreader can browse and you have incredibly convenient public domain books right to the ereader.

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can also use Book Bounty to integrate LibGen support into Readarr. It’s a workaround for one of Readarr’s biggest weaknesses, as torrents historically aren’t great for ebooks.

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  • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t readarr get discontinued a few weeks ago?

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was officially unsupported, but it still works just fine if you use a third-party metadata provider. There haven’t been any breaking changes on the backend, so (unless sites change things) it will continue to work fine.

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• tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The best books are on IRC.

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