On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.

  • daytonah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Does that provide epub when baught? Or does it lock you in with their DRM app?

    • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thanks for asking this, that question made me go look it up.

      I found https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

      I thought you could load bookshop.org eBooks onto a Kindle, but it seems they have their own DRM and you need to use their own app…

      Some of their books are DRM free, but not all. I thought they all were, but it turns out I was wrong.

      So… maybe even bookshop.org isn’t the best option for Kindles.

      I guess there really is only one option left…

      • daytonah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I went researched a few years ago and concluded that there is no option for writers to be guaranteed “no piracy” and that’s why they prefer having paperbooks. (That is also after brainstorming with a few people to publish my own book if it were…) and those days i was trying to find an important book in electronic format and could not find it anywhere, the paper 10th edition version (which i eventually bought) is like 1000 pages and the e version i found was 200 ish pages summary. So my sad conclusion was that i just need a big’ol scanner at home, just so that i can scan everything that i buy in paper just because i could then keep it personally on my e-reader (and having destroyedbinding of each book i buy lmao)… is that too much to ask… my wife says no… lol