Technology

When I got a kindle (10 years ago) I did it on the basis that it was possible to strip the DRM of the books and load them on another device. I'm not going to be tied to some shitty platform for ever more. I must say though that when I have bought books on other places, the process of stripping the DRM and getting the book onto the device has been an absolute ballache - presumably the same for any device when you're not using the native store.

I won't be going back to physical books though. I bought a hardback for the first time in ages and my wrists don't like it. Nor does my partner when I'm reading while they're trying to sleep.

Yarrrrrr

Oh no, clumsy me, dropping these links, what a mess.

We'll soon be back to monks transcribing at this rate.

DRM on Kindle it's a known fact. That's why Richard Stallman calls it Swindle

OK, so kindle is off the list of potential readers.

Any recommendations for a good reader that can do epub, PDF, and maybe even html with CSS?

So they encrypt it via keys they download to protected storage.

I hope their market share will tank after a few public outrages. Make sure you're not one of the victims.

My kindle only knows about library books.

This is why it sucks that physical print media is on the decline, because one could just scan their own PDFs or if possible epubs instead of dealing with this if physical print media was still commonplace.

I have an ereader and I've never bought an ebook. The fact that they're priced the same as paperbacks is absurd.

I have a pocketbook instead of a Kindle cause of this lol

I think it was 10? years ago when I grudgingly tried a kindle because it was so ridiculously cheap and the people around me loved theirs.

The Kindle was an Ad bomb. After engaging internet only, no TV, no ads, since, 2003? (Whenever xfiles, Buffy, DS9, and Firefly were done.) The kindle hit like a sledgehammer with the native ads system. I returned the failed tablet to Amazon.

I don’t know how people live with that level of ad consumption and I grew up with TV commercials. Libby on iPad mini. It’s fine.

Are there any good "open" alternatives to the Paperwhite? I've been drooling over getting an e-ink reader for like a month straight now. https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/kindle-models.html
Most of the current models can be jailbroken, but I'd definitely rather another route. (Not having to deal with checking second-hand market seller's firmware versions etc)