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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 0 points 10 months ago

If only there were some way to get books to read in a format where a billionaire's trillion dollar company can't gatekeep them.

Some sort of physical product, perhaps one made out of trees?

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The optimist in me says they're doing this to avoid piracy.

The pessimist in me says they're doing this so they can purge books because of the Trump administration.

Either way, I can't say I'm a fan.

[–] polysics@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I sure am glad I got a Kobo for myself for Xmas and ripped all my books to it. Guess I'll be recycling my Kindle for good.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just got a Kobo color (don't recommend the color feature; no book is ever going to use it except the red-letter Bible and House of Leaves) and gifted the old Kindle to a friend. I e-reader is an awesome gift actually because for a lot of people it's something they would never evenly in years take a chance on, but that they would love it if they tried.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting. What kind of massage are you talking about here?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Answered in the sibling, but this basically: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Thank you!

[–] amos@mander.xyz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting that you don't recommend Kobo Color. I was thinking of gifting my mother a kobo but I might just go for a BW version.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

To be quite honest I never allowed my Kindle or my Kobo to go online and the experience is not that different. The build quality on the Kindle is a bit better superior and I might well go back. Calibre is the real hero of the story IMO.

[–] Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 10 months ago

The only surprising thing about this is that the functionality existed in the first place.