Cool! But what prevents Amazon from patching this in a few days?
Well they haven't patched _anything_ in the last 600 days so that would be fairly optimistic.
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#302The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn.
It benefits Amazon obviously, but otherwise it's a massive shame to ebooks as a whole. I was really excited about ebooks when they started, but DRM has completely stagnated the format so much that I've almost completely given up on ebooks now, and read hard copies instead unless I really want to read something and it isn't otherwise available.
I never even got into ebooks in the first place, precisely because of the DRM and "your so-called purchases can still get yoinked" problems.
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#303I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
IIRC e-ink used to not be that cheap and Amazon sold you one for not that much money.
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#304I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
I am using because of ease to use with Amazon. For my $8 book purchases I read once I do not want to see too much trouble.
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#305I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
Household name + most people don't even know about ebook DRM so they never encounter that downside + it's the books that come with DRM; you can move pirated books to it just fine.
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#306I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
The devices are cheap (for what they are), the ebooks are cheap and most people are already neck deep in their ecosystem so being locked down isn't an issue to them.
Also, it's not like other ebook readers let you buy non-DRM versions of whatever books you like. Most popular ebooks have DRM of some kind.
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#307I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
Because they're affordable. Many people forego the idealism in favor of practicalism.
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#308KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022: https://imgur.com/a/oYshWxI
KOReader is so good for reading PDFs, compared to the native reader, I’m very impressed. Supports proper landscape mode (where swiping to next page moves to the second half of the current page, THEN next swipe gets you to the first half of the next page), supports auto-rotation, support auto-cropping of PDFs with controllable margin (killer feature), supports contrast adjustments, … It does not support handwritten annotations, but for just reading PDFs - it’s perfect.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. I had an original Kindle fire (back when it was still "Android") and I loved it great device for the money. It saddens me greatly how they've locked everything down. They could be the premier builders but instead I know then as grotesque authoritarians.
I find it exceedingly likely that they lose money on every kindle fire sold (at least during one of their regular sales), unless it causes more content sales. So the solution is of course to make it as useless as possible for anything else, otherwise they would just lose more. Same as inkjet printers.
I've had the same thought, though if true I wish they'd sell an unlocked version for more money, similar to how they did the ads on lock screen
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! You just sold a kobo :-) I have a remarkable 2 and really like it, but my wife needs a new "Kindle" and I'd rather cut my finger off than pay Amazon to abuse me. Looking forward to trying out the kobo
Is remarkable 2 a good ebook reader?
Personally, I find it to be an excellent ebook reader. Easy to navigate, and works well with epubs and PDFs. I like to highlight and annotate on books as I read, and to me that is an absolutely killer feature that the remarkable allows me to do. It also saves a separate copy with the annotations so you aren't marking up your original, which is something I really love.
Devices made specifically to be e-readers are usually a bit less friction. but to me, The openness and hackability of the remarkable and it's excellent feature set for writing makes it an excellent choice.