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

• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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

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• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell, Kobos are bootloader locked now old.reddit.com/…/kobo_is_now_using_secure_boot_on…

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    • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can still transfer epubs and most books on the kobo store are sold without DRM (publisher choice)

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s a far cry from

        Plenty of other electronics that you have full control over.

        mentioned in the first comment

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨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

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A Raspberry Pi with an E-INK screen is surprisingly doable.

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The raspberry pi has no low power modes / suspend states, to prevent it being used as a cell phone or tablet.
        The standalone eink display are also very expensive, more than a entire eink reader and there is very little choice and they cannot be harvested from a working device.

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• nuggie_ss@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can read books for free on just about any general purpose computer.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    My wife doesn’t let me bring the Thinkpad to bed anymore

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