You don't own your Kindle books anymore: Amazon pulling the download to USB feature the end of this week.
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Same, though truthfully I don’t really read.
However - many years ago, in a lapse of good judgement, I bought my daughter a kids kindle. When I gave it to her and told her what it was for she was like cool, but we can still go to library, right? Mao bless.
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I can't seem to get this to work using Calibre. I actually bought a book a few years ago from Amazon, the author is my wife's cousin. Ive got the azw3 file or whatever, and even installed that DeDRM or NoDRM plugin, and it still says its protected with DRM.
If you're not using Calibre, what app do you use to strip the DRM?
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It's definitely different on some websites though. I buy a lot of Technical books on PacktPub. You can easily download them and they just work. They also have an online reader, and lots of extras in some cases.
Why can't Amazon be that flexible?
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Edit: Woops. Posted in wrong place.
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American libraries are amazing. At least the one in my hometown still is. Great memories of summer camps there as a kid. Mao bless indeed. They just don't have those kinds of things outside of America at that level.Same, though truthfully I don’t really read.
However - many years ago, in a lapse of good judgement, I bought my daughter a kids kindle. When I gave it to her and told her what it was for she was like cool, but we can still go to library, right? Mao bless.
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I almost wish someone would go Luigi on these motherfuckers.
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for some reason only joe8 level people are known to have chance encounters with the guy you're thinking about
No chance of unlocking Luigi to play as with these people
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Me, going to the university library in my first week in a Murican institution and wondering why I couldn't find my classes' required books to borrow. We certainly don't, Sage.
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I forgot to actually post what I was going to but those are e-ink, that's the whole point of them really, the screens do NOT have to spend any power to retain their images and you can read them off natural light, just like paper. I know this doesn't contradict what you posted a bit but I feel like e-ink is very pleasant to look at and the closest we'll ever get to electronic paper, so the Kindle deserves some credit.
I just think Kindles (from the two Paperwhites I've owned) are very limited and processing is fucking slow for a device that only needs to render fonts and shoot it to the e-ink screen, it doesn't even need to refresh the screen 60fps or more like a tablet. Anything other than moving to prev/next page feels cumbersome in it, and you can only read epubs (or pdfs if you like to suffer) and that's it.
Now a Boox Note Air 3, now that's more like it. Admittedly the stylus experience with non-native Android apps (including OneNote) is poor, but it has a native note taking app and a document reader that lets you scribble on top of PDFs and other types of documents (hint: https://github.com/kudrykv/latex-yearly-planner). I haven't read much in it but I use it daily at work as a planner and note taker and I can't live without it anymore. You can have the device sleep with a "transparent" wallpaper (meaning whatever you were working on stays there legible) and you can program it to turn off after a few minutes (boot is quite fast). So at the end of the day the battery lasts fucking forever, I think I only had to charge this thing 2 or 3 times since I bought it last year with no exaggeration.
It just feels good to write on, and all the extra functionality is a plus.
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I agree, that's why I pretty much only use my tablet for reading comics. Some of the e-ink screens look nice though, but I've never really considered buying one.
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This is the result of late stage capitalism, people.
The panacea is to read more papyrus.
Get it from old bookstores. Get older versions of the books you want to own.
Don't get so fixated on owning every single book you read. Give most of them away. Keep the ones that are truly special to you.
This is the way.
The panacea is to read more papyrus.
Get it from old bookstores. Get older versions of the books you want to own.
Don't get so fixated on owning every single book you read. Give most of them away. Keep the ones that are truly special to you.
This is the way.
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So is there even a good eink device that can just load up any pdf or epub? Here’s what I need it to do: load old pdf issues of magazines and load public domain books, usually in pdf format. But I definitely want eink. My eyes are delicate.
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I think the Kobo libra colour would meet your needs.
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I think the kobo does that.
