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fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlNederlands · 3 months ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlNederlands · 3 months ago
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Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…
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  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    🏴‍☠️

    https://annas-archive.org/

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      I prefer zlib but tomatoes tomatoes

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    Discussion on other lemmy instance https://lemmy.world/post/25708444

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    • Go to a Book Store
    • Buy a Book
    • Go Home with the Book
    • Read your Book
    • 🖕Amazon
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    That’s okay, facebook has all of them right? Right…?

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    Does anyone know if using Calibre will be affected by this change?

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      If you use a kindle. Mod it before it’s too late. There is a new exploit that works on all kindles.

      https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

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        Wasn’t aware you could mod a Kindle. What does doing this do?

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    I didn’t even disagree with the author’s assessment of bezos but it really made the article shit. I really wish people would stop putting their opinions into every “article”. Amazon looks shitty without the insults. Use neutral language and detail the facts of a situation and let the reader think " God I’m so sick of bezos and his Mr. Clean wannabe, fascist loving, punchable face." On their own.

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      Bezos doesn’t run the business anymore. He’s no longer the CEO. While he exploited the workers during his tenure, as a customer I had no complaints when he was CEO. They had only started to enshittify recently

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        I can’t believe I didn’t know Bezos wasn’t CEO any more. Thanks for the info. 2021 was a weird year for me guess I wasn’t paying attention when that happened. Doesn’t change my opinion of Bezos as a person, but now I have someone new I also dislike 🤣.

        He is the executive chairman for Amazon’s board though.

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    If you have a lot of books to download, check out https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader

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    So, what, people won’t be allowed to read offline anymore? I hear the high seas calling…

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    Amazon has already stripped away my ability to give a fuck!

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