Human Brain EnthusiastCompanies should be required by law to completely open devices when they end support for them
If they don’t, the penalty should be that the CEO has to eat the bricked devices
dnparadice@thomasfuchs Yes this is great and if they don't do it, in the future you can simply not give your money to billionaire a holes and their shitty companies with shitty policies in the first place. Try a free open source alternative and forego watching your gadgets turn into e waste.
Eatsbluecrayon@dnparadice @thomasfuchs I have been trying to 100 percent avoid Amazon, but with a lot of places to buy eBooks from, it's more walled gardens. Kobo requires their own hardware or an Adobe ID. The books I want to buy are rarely available at other sources. I have tried so much, but everything is so complicated and time consuming and in the end I'm not owning my books.
I am back to sailing the high seas and instead of paying publishers I'm donating to the authors directly. If they offer that.
I am back to sailing the high seas and instead of paying publishers I'm donating to the authors directly. If they offer that.
Anne@Eatsbluecrayon @dnparadice @thomasfuchs they do? I have a kobo account and can read on my phone with the app - I don’t have to have an ereader (but I do).
I’m unaware of the need for the Adobe ID?
I’m unaware of the need for the Adobe ID?
Alyn@annecavicchi
I think the Adobe ID is required if you want to read DRM'd books on a computer because it uses Adobe Editions. It's a necessary process to remove that DRM, I understand.
@Eatsbluecrayon @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
I think the Adobe ID is required if you want to read DRM'd books on a computer because it uses Adobe Editions. It's a necessary process to remove that DRM, I understand.
@Eatsbluecrayon @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
@alyn @annecavicchi @dnparadice @thomasfuchs Yes. I want to buy books, store them on my computer and read them on my different devices. And Kobo doesn't let me download epub/mobi/whatever files, if I don't have an Adobe ID.
If I bought a file, I should be able to download it without any further hurdles.
If I bought a file, I should be able to download it without any further hurdles.
@Eatsbluecrayon @annecavicchi @dnparadice @thomasfuchs
Kobo does allow that IF (and only if) the publisher decides to make the book available without DRM. It's not Kobo who has chosen DRM, but they have supplied the means I suppose.
Source of knowledge: One of my wife's books that got indie published is available on Kobo without DRM - you buy it and download it, you get an ePub.
@alyn @annecavicchi @dnparadice @thomasfuchs Thank you for that additional information!
I fear most books will have DRM at the moment.
I fear most books will have DRM at the moment.
Ross of Ottawa@Eatsbluecrayon if you follow the online recipes for removing DRM with Calibre, you can get around the Adobe process pretty well. I think they even have a method with a dummy Adobe ID and you can avoid any Adobe software usage all together.
I make good use of my Kobo devices with Calibre software and the @gutenberg_org titles when I'm not using it with library-sourced epubs.
@ottaross
Maybe you do, but in several jurisdictions that's illegal, and I don't publicly post about personally doing illegal things.
I mean, I use my new XTEINK X4 to read the many epubs that live on my Calibre-Web server. How they arrived there is my business, but I survive by people buying creative output, so they're paid for!
@Eatsbluecrayon is specifically looking for a method that involves no extra steps though, so lobbying publishers to remove DRM is the only legitimate way forward.