Jules she/herOkay I have about 900 Kindle books that I've paid for. I've never dared try stripping the DRM off them in case Amazon somehow finds out and blocks my account, losing me the rest of them. But since Amazon's planning on deprecating my Kindle in May now I guess I have nothing to lose. What would everyone suggest? And can anyone recommend a good e ink reader to replace the Kindle that can read files from any source?
sotolf@afewbugs I'm still using my kindle and just converting everything to mobi with calibre, it usually offers a format to convert to that the reader will accept. I don't want to contribute to e-waste by putting aside a reader that works, probably will go for something else once it gives up. But I'm also one of those weirdos that don't let my e-book reader connect to the internet.
@sotolf I don't want to give up my Kindle either 😢 But apparently after the 20th of May I won't be able to add new files to it
@afewbugs I mean, they can't stop you from connect it to usb and transfer stuff that way, can they ? There is no way if you turn off your wifi that they can even instruct it do selfdestruct that way. I usually buy stuff from other book stores which offers non drm books and then transfer them over usb.
@sotolf that's a very good point, I interpreted "you will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date." as you will not be able to add any new files, but if it just means through wifi and I can still use USB transfer that changes things
@afewbugs Yeah, if they would go that crazy direction they would have to somehow update the firmware to block usb transfer, and I don't think that will be the case, it's more likely that they are changing over to some more complex heavy encryption/drm scheme that they didn't manage to get performant on the older devices, and therefore just say they are no longer supported.
RedYeah, it's the same thing I've done, after the first week when I downloaded the stuff I had bought on Amazon I deleted the network connections and put it in airplane mode, and it has stayed that way.
But I'm weird, I just want it to stay the way that it was when I got it, and I don't think that I will need any updates, it's there to show text, and it does that well enough, so it doesn't get to update.
Dash@sotolf @afewbugs Yeah, I've got, not the first ever model, but the first cheap-model one that dropped the keyboard. It's been in aeroplane mode for over a decade at this point.
TBH I've never managed to be a big ebook person, but the ones I have bought since then have been indie stuff from Smashwords via Calibre and a USB cable. If I want something from a big publisher I still just buy paper copies.