Glad to have gotten off Kindle and onto Kobo years ago. Enshittification continues on. Now, we just have to wait for the publishers to put the screws to Rakuten...
Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
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#112FYI if you have an older kindle you possibly can jailbreak it and getting KoReader on in.
Even newer Kindles can be jail broken, provided they're on the right version.
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Kobo, syncing with a home library (CalibreWeb) works well. I do miss physical buttons a little, but that’s minor gripe.
You do know that both the Kobo Libra and Sage have physical buttons, right?
Thanks.
I didn’t know, but looking at them I must have noticed when I settled on the Clara - the price of the Sage is a lot higher, almost double.
I struggled with reviews when buying as I do love having a local library and the ease/difficulty of setting this up is never in device reviews.
Re: Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
#114Get a kobo Libra color. Put Koreader on it. add the bookfusion or LocalSend plugin. Thank me later
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is silly because you can easily just use OCR and screenshots to create DRM free versions of Kindle books.
What OCR do you guys use? I have only seen OCR that makes a lot of errors. Having it be usable requires tons of manual review. I probably wouldn't trust an LLM to do that review because it may introduce its own errors. Edit: downvoters, would you like to answer my question? I would genuinely like to know. I thought based on the confidence of the comment above there must be a super accurate OCR I've never heard of, bu…
Modern OCR is VERY accurate. Heck Adobe Acrobat Pro OCR was essentially perfect 20 years ago.
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#116I’m so happy I downloaded all my Kindle books when I still had a chance and then moved to the Kobo ecosystem, which albeit not perfect is much much better
Would you mind elaborating on the problems you have with the Kobo? I'm thinking of getting one of these once my kindle dies.
I’m in Canada. I’ve had a couple of Kobos and I’ve loved every single one of them. The Kobo bookstore works fine. No complaints.
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Which is silly because you can easily just use OCR and screenshots to create DRM free versions of Kindle books.
OCR'd ebooks are universally trash. For one, all formatting is gone. Anything in the book other than ASCII characters will vanish. You lose links within the book and all other advanced features. And OCR is generally just not accurate enough and still makes very visible mistakes throughout the text. Have you read many OCR'd ebooks? I have, and every single one was massively inferior. Most I would consider barely reada…
I love it when formatting is removed. Some ebooks especially epub don't work well with alternative fonts somehow.
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#118Combined with the announcement that they're killing the old Kindles as well...this is 100% about preventing people from liberating DRM from their books. Full stop. They are closing each and every remaining hole.
When they stopped allowing downloads last year I liberated all my books (there was a month before it actually closed down) and stopped buying from Amazon. I'm done.
I now buy from authors directly or I go to my friend Anna. Too bad because the prices were reasonable.
Re: Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
#119Combined with the announcement that they're killing the old Kindles as well...this is 100% about preventing people from liberating DRM from their books. Full stop. They are closing each and every remaining hole.
I wonder if it'll actually work? At the moment you can pretty much go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis and download whatever.
You could download books I wrote from libgen, before the actual publish date, and the files were ones I created specifically for Amazon.
So I'd assume libgen and Anna's Archive will continue on, operating just as normal.
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wtf. I’ve had my kindle since 2011, the battery still lasts weeks, it works perfectly, and I frequently praise Amazon for this. wtf. Will I be able to load books via USB? Or there is some new DRM the kindle won’t be able to decrypt?
Yeah this is my question. My Kindle has been in airplane mode since the day I bought it. As long as I can still keep loading books on it over USB, and it's just their DRM ecosystem that will stop working, that's fine with me. But if they are aggressively bricking the units, if I accidentally turn on wifi by accident and it just completely stops working, I will be extremely pissed.
they are not bricking the units. just kindle store won't be available anymore, and the azw/epub version which is supported on your kindles won't be provided anymore by amazon anywhere.
what is on the kindle will stay and keep working.
if you reset the kindle, DRMed content won't work anymore.