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Post by karparov »

eloisant wrote: post #159
karparov wrote: post #136

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12 months is a laughable amount of time. Sadly, companies have normalized such short periods of time, so much so that everybody would give me looks when I say that 5 or 10 years would be more appropriate. Especially tech folks, so I'm expecting pushback in a forum like HN. My in-laws have a few kitchen appliances from the 80s. Still working rock-solid. Not the wifi-enabled modern crap with some shitty cloud-based app…

In Europe the minimum is 2 years, but I agree it's still too short.

That's kinda my point. Two years are better than one, but celebrating it as the achievement is really missing the bigger picture (and is a great success of lobbying work)

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Post by safety1st »

RachelF wrote: post #40
shasheene wrote: post #8

Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/ https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Yes, KOReader is the reason to jailbreak a Kindle. It's way better than the built-in Amazon reader app.

I was actually trying out KOReader (on Android via F-droid) last night and it... looks promising... but better than the Kindle app, really? It doesn't have a dark mode which is basically baseline for me reading at night. Or am I missing something?

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by briandear »

einpoklum wrote: post #214
nolok wrote: post #156

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This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.

> rather terrible for supporting authors ... scifi from small authors who self > publish on kindle ... I would rather they get my money for their work. I would suggest you write them (each of them) a letter, or email, which: 1. Discourage them from publishing on an Amazon platform, explaining how Amazon, and DRM-laden reading, is terrible. 2. Suggest that they publish with a link allowing readers to pay them directly…

But Amazon DRM-laden reading isn’t terrible. I buy a book, it’s on my Kindle. With Kindle Unlimited, I can read tons of books for a fairly small monthly price.

Not sure what problem we’re trying to solve.

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Post by YuccaGloriosa »

dsign wrote: post #180
nolok wrote: post #156

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This is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.

This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images emb…

I believe Amazon impose a whole bunch of conditions on people publishing on their platform. Along the lines of exclusivity and controlling where else if at all you can sell it. I'm pretty sure Corey Doctorow extensively covered this.

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Post by YuccaGloriosa »

digikazi wrote: post #248
ornornor wrote: post #236

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Libgen, #bookz on irc, and dedrm plugin for calibre will let you get drm free copies of books you already own so you can use them however you see fit

Sadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.

I heard some new guys were running it federal bureau of something

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Post by drio »

I just wanted to express my support for KOReader—it’s a fantastic piece of software. I use it on my Kobo, and the UI is noticeably faster than the device’s default system. It also offers a wealth of customization options. This may not be an issue on newer e-readers, but the ability to highlight seamlessly across adjacent pages is truly liberating.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by dsign »

YuccaGloriosa wrote: post #254
dsign wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it comes to reach and to some small features, but they are no panacea either. For example, they don't support epub 3 with aural synchronized media, and they do something terrible to images emb…

I believe Amazon impose a whole bunch of conditions on people publishing on their platform. Along the lines of exclusivity and controlling where else if at all you can sell it. I'm pretty sure Corey Doctorow extensively covered this.

Yes they do. One particularly annoying one is about pricing: price can't be zero. If you write as a hobby and don't care about making a dollar, then Amazon gets in the way. Sure, you can publish in Amazon and charge 1 USD, but then you can't publish your book on your own website for free because it goes against Amazon's TOS.

There are other peeves. Covers for example: it's against the TOS to have a cover that shows female nipples, but it's okay to show male nipples. Beyond the sexism of the rule, I'm worried that the way to enforce this is to have some ML system checking all the covers and making judgements about nipples. Which means you have to ask your cover artist to not draw anything that may accidentally look like the wrong kind of nipple \o/ .

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Post by ornornor »

digikazi wrote: post #248
ornornor wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Libgen, #bookz on irc, and dedrm plugin for calibre will let you get drm free copies of books you already own so you can use them however you see fit

Sadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.

Depends where you look :)

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..

Do you know how much of this applies to older Kobos? I love my Forma but I'd rather start experimenting like crazy on a 2011 one first if I can.
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