Submitted 4 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.howtogeek.com/kindle-discontinues-download-transfer-via-usb/
On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.
This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.
The only surprise here is that it took them this long to do it.
C’mon United States, do the anti-trust thing! You used to be so good at it!
Did they? There have been a few cases, sure, but in general they’ve not been good in this regard.
They are allowed to do that? It’s your ebooks, not their ebooks.
According to them you only have a license to those ebooks.
And Amazons owns them? I would be furious as a publisher.
Been using an Onyx Boox Nova 3 for maybe 8 years now. It runs android, drm free everything. For some android could be a distractiin from reading, but the browser is slow enough to were you use it to hop on annas-archive, get a book and then quickly close it. File transfer via shared wifi or USB, good reader, some nice reading stats without needing any account. Recommend if anyone wants to jump the amazon ship.
E-paper devices with Android are usually way underpowered for the platform, easier to just use the phone for such things.
I think you are missing the point of using an e-ink device… I don’t think anyone would use one because of “how powerful” it is.
I don’t want to read for hours on end on my phone or computer. With this, I can turn backlight off and use a lamp, like a normal book. Better for my eyes and relaxing.
Also, having dedicated devices for certain activities will change how you interact with them when using them. If I read a book on my computer I am tempted to look things up, get some work done or play a game. This is just for leisurely reading, and so when I pick it up that is what I do with it.
If you read a lot (books, not documentation which requires looking things up) then it really is a lot better for your eyes and a better experience to use e-ink.
The Nova 3 released in late 2020, it hasn’t existed for 8 years.
Wait, people who have Kindles buy their books from Amazon?
I always just got mine from a certain private mouse tracker.
My favorite sites for actual ebooks are Humble Bundle and Fantastic. But these are predominantly tech books. No idea where I’d get good fiction in epub today.
UncleJosh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve been downloading my books but most of them are DRM so I can’t read them on anything BUT a Kindle. I’ve been thinking about getting another e-reader but I fear I’m trapped.
yulian@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Just look up Kindle DeDRM, it is easy enough to remove that stuff and then even convert them to epub