Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678320
Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers
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#12This closes the DRM hole in Kindle. The newer Kindle DRM formats have been robust, but the old DX reader AWZ format was hacked ages ago. Anyone with an old device could download their books in the old DRM, and strip it with DeDRM. But those downloads will end in May.
If you have a decent library at Kindle and want a DRM-free copy, I'd download it now.
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#13I really wish the Libby app worked with devices other than Kindle. I got a Kindle because I wanted to check out eBooks from the library and read them on an eInk screen.
Libby works with Kobo (well Overdrive works with Kobo). You check out a book in Libby and then just sync the Kobo and it appears.
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#14Would be cool to be able to search this, I'm not a LOTR expert. But I wanted to search for the Valar island as i have no way of knowing where it is. The islands I clicked on didn't seem to be it.
Uhhh, I guess the map is a little hard to use and you seemed too have taken a wrong turn. This is an ebook thread, not the LOTR map thread.
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#15The Kindle hardware is great, but the software and ecosystem are just crap, and Amazon is making it shittier every year. I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]). I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens. [1] https://shop.boox.com/products/go…
How is the Boox Note 7 in regards to reading PDFs?
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#16Bought a Kindle because it was the cheapest ereader I could find. Amazon heavily subsidised it.
Joke's on them I've never bought a book from the Amazon store! It takes a few minutes to drop files on it via USB.
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#17Could this help? https://uk.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q00009ipZmHSAU/can... After all the kindle is a hard disk with a nice screen.
No. Amazon discontinued USB transfers last year.
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#18I really wish the Libby app worked with devices other than Kindle. I got a Kindle because I wanted to check out eBooks from the library and read them on an eInk screen.
Yeah the public library in my country insists on Adobe.
I lend books legally (library membership), strip the DRM and convert it to mobi. There's just no way I am reading books on my phone.
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#19The Kindle hardware is great, but the software and ecosystem are just crap, and Amazon is making it shittier every year. I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]). I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens. [1] https://shop.boox.com/products/go…
How is the Boox Note 7 in regards to reading PDFs?
Its quite nice, there is a so called "article mode", where you can set a zoomed portion of the PDF, and configure how it "jumps" to the next page.
See video here: https://youtu.be/vQxlGIR8LE4?t=835