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

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BitsAndBites@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought my first ereader this summer and got a Kindle and hated it. Returned it and got a Kobo. Its fantastic, I can just load my ebooks like it’s an external drive. I dont have to email all my ebooks to Amazon just to get them on my own device.

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  • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @BitsAndBites @Lushed_Lungfish also also, if you're local library uses overdrive/Libby you can just have free books, easy peasy

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    • BitsAndBites@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, the ability to use Overdrive directly on the Kobo to checkout or return titles is so much nicer!

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll be switching to kobo next time round, but I’ve never not been able to dump books onto my kindle by usb. I do it with my phone over USB sometimes. Since when has not doing that been a thing?

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    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since at some point recently. You can still email files (epub not mobi now) to your kindle, but usb transfer doesn’t work any more.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Have you got a link to more info about it? I can’t find details anywhere.

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• sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been with them for a couple of years now. Unfortunately the devices just doubled in price but I’m very happy with them otherwise.

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