I am honestly surprised it took this long! Kindle has been around a long time and it’s not like Amazon was any less evil back then. It makes me wonder if the competition has been starting to make them nervous!
Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know why people buy an stuff like this and get surprised when this happens.
Plenty of other electronics that you have full control over.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Plenty ? Really ? And what are those ?
Four times the prices and from four years ago ?
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Unless Kindle prices came way down, Boox are comparable in price, nicer in features, and allow side loading any eBook or Android APK (including the Kindle APK, if you can still get a copy of it.)
shop.boox.com
aaravchen@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I don’t think you’ve used anything but a Boox in a long time, and have forgotten what the standard is. Boox has 1/10 the battery life, takes forever to wake up, and doesn’t support deep sleep properly (so it either drains battery when sitting idle, or shuts off entirely taking 5+ minutes to power back on). It’s decent hardware with very badly designed software. Neither Kobo or Kindle devices have these problems, they have battery that actually lasts, deep sleep when idle for any length of time, and power back up, even from deep sleep in 10 seconds or less.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Agreed, the battery life is way worse. I find tht features of full unlocked Android to be a worthwhile trade.
But my point is that the prices of various eInk Android tablets aren’t unreasonable anymore.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Kobo e-readers are 1-to-1 alternatives that allow you to easily transfer epubs or PDFs to it with a USB cable.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
As far as I can tell, Kobos are bootloader locked now old.reddit.com/…/kobo_is_now_using_secure_boot_on…
tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s not about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.
Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 6 hours ago
You can still transfer epubs and most books on the kobo store are sold without DRM (publisher choice)
rumba@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Having your cake and eating it too isn’t on the menu
Kindles were loss leaders to get you in their ecosystem, just like all the shitty cheap tablets they sold.
The from four years ago part is real, but honestly, 4 year old devices read books about as well as current devices as long as you’re not trying to go all fancy.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
It’s just matter of time before they’re all locked down, even the bad ones from 2020.
Just like android where basically it’s all bootloader locked, except for a few suspiciously special models like the Pixel. Or a “new” 1000$ model with hardware from 2018.
Instead of pretending there isn’t a problem because there are still option, you should realize the WINDOW IS CLOSING
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
A Raspberry Pi with an E-INK screen is surprisingly doable.
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 4 hours ago
You can read books for free on just about any general purpose computer.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My wife doesn’t let me bring the Thinkpad to bed anymore