DRM on Kindle it’s a known fact. That’s why Richard Stallman calls it Swindle
Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books
Submitted 13 hours ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 12 hours ago
This is why it sucks that physical print media is on the decline, because one could just scan their own PDFs instead if physical print media was still commonplace.
krashmo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Are you suggesting that most people would rather scan 400+ pages of a physical book than deal with ebook DRM? Because that sounds like the worst, most tedious option to me. I’m confident most would never consider scanning a viable option.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 12 hours ago
There’s specialized hardware out there since the 80s(?) That does this sort of thing for you. All it takes is one person and now the book is “out”. I worked with one for historical texts. Worked really well. It was so cool to see it in action.
A lot of younger people are into physical media. Its cool to see.
otacon239@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yeah, not to mention the actual advantages that come with the format, such as search, highlighting, multiple bookmarks, nets, etc. Yes, you can do most of these with a physical, but not without marking up your original copy or having extra materials on hand. Just way more convenient overall.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
That’s even assuming the book you want is available and wasn’t a super limited printing that you couldn’t even begin to afford in the first place.
jodanlime@midwest.social 12 hours ago
Have you ever scanned a book? It’s an arduous process and I don’t think most people would go through all the hassle. The files will also never look as clean as an ebook that was made from scratch. There are plenty of other readers and book stores that aren’t at this level of greed, and most libraries have some way to borrow ebooks these days.
Zephorah@discuss.online 12 hours ago
I think it was 10? years ago when I grudgingly tried a kindle because it was so ridiculously cheap and the people around me loved theirs.
The Kindle was an Ad bomb. After engaging internet only, no TV, no ads, since, 2003? (Whenever xfiles, Buffy, DS9, and Firefly were done.) The kindle hit like a sledgehammer with the native ads system. I returned the failed tablet to Amazon.
I don’t know how people live with that level of ad consumption and I grew up with TV commercials. Libby on iPad mini. It’s fine.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
The not-ridiculously-cheap Kindles do not have any ads. Yes it’s scummy and gross to sell something with built in ads, but I expect most people who “loved theirs” did not have the cheap ad-supported one, they had the more expensive models. The ad-supported cheap versions are not representative of the general quality or experience of a more common and typical Kindle.
That said, it is still a locked down piece of shit. There are much, much better options. Kobo is great hardware that is as straightforward to “hack” as copying a file into a directory, as it’s running a stripped down Linux basically. Kobo with KoReader is all I need.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Boox is even easier than kobo, all you need to do is…nothing at all. It just accepts all formats with no lockdown out of the box.
anon5621@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I bought personally second hand kindle and jailbreaked and using koreader no other way, my device enitely always offline
Rooty@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I have an ereader and I’ve never bought an ebook. The fact that they’re priced the same as paperbacks is absurd.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I like to go check out the book I want from the library, and when it gives me the Amazon DRM version I just go search for the epub version online and download that. IIRC, completely legal as I have legal access to the book…somehow.
Rooty@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
IDC personally. I remember publishing houses basically forcing the Internet Archive from letting people download books *during the fucking pandemic. They killed fair use, fuckem.
melfie@lemy.lol 11 hours ago
It’s a weird concept that you buy a device and then have to find an exploit that hasn’t been patched in order to do what you like with it as though you’re a hacker trying to breach someone else’s system, but it’s actually your own system you’re trying to breach.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
lustrum@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Buy a pocketbook and don’t log into any accounts. Fuck em. I keep mine airgapped.
Lanske@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Moved away from amazon and kindle a while back
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Just imagine giving money voluntarily to Amazon.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If you have a kindle you can hack it and load PDFs onto it. The koreader is better anyway.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
calibre ftw always and forever
fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Oh no, clumsy me, dropping these links, what a mess.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They’re also facing problems ripping books from Amazon, sadly.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
Yes, but they will probably have older titles 9 out of 10 times.