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Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

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Re: Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

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I can't find any announcement from Amazon. Really hope that this is just a wild speculation. On the other hand, I've been reading some books on Manning liveBook, it's really nice to be able to interact with other readers in the comment section on the same content, and sometimes the author would chime in too. But of course only Manning books are available there.

Re: Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

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If you're on a platform where Kindle Reader app is available, is there any reason to use the Kindle Cloud Reader?

I guess there are some people who buy Kindle books but whose main OS is ChromeOS (like the screenshot in the article) or desktop Linux. What's the solution for them? Use ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome)?

Re: Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

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If you're on a platform where Kindle Reader app is available, is there any reason to use the Kindle Cloud Reader? I guess there are some people who buy Kindle books but whose main OS is ChromeOS (like the screenshot in the article) or desktop Linux. What's the solution for them? Use ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome)?

Downtime at work where you don’t have local admin and an actual Kindle or paper book is too obvious.

Re: Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader

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News like this is why I don't support services that don't allow downloading a non-DRM copy of the data I would purchase. No Kindle, no Spotify, no Netflix.

You’re not buying content on Spotify and netflix.

This is a bad comparison to kindle where you actually purchase content.