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Still think paper is outdated now dumbass?

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1-JsxYRllfCBVJyJHR12LOYjrDfzGaXSABiVL1fn5HSy2HJHTHPrt5Gfg

>> No.15624274

>>15624246
Shameless self bump I don't even know if this works

>> No.15624293

>>15624246
anyone not using calibre is a certified retard

>> No.15624298

>>15624246
>buying drm'd books and being surprised when the publisher can delete them
If you buy an ereader to buy ebooks you're retarded.

>> No.15624302

>>15624293
Please don't call me a retard, But what's calibre?

>> No.15624314

>>15624246
are you familiar with Libgen?

>> No.15624324

>>15624314
No

>> No.15624343

>An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” he said.
Seems fair
Thought it was over him being cancelled for a second there.

>> No.15624351

>2009

Blast from the past! Far out!

>> No.15624358

>>15624314
It's only safe for now. Archive is under attack for doing what libgen does but doing it more "according to the law".
In the end we are seeing books being "burned" even though much of /lit/closes it's eye to it.

>> No.15624537

Using an e-reader for convenience is fine. Using it as your primary store of books is stupid for the reasons this article illustrates. It is trivial for your collection to be erased, selectively or entirely, without your consent or knowledge. Any book I care about and want to keep I own in print. My ereader is for travel, so I don't have to pack a whole separate bag full of books when I stay somewhere for extended periods.

>> No.15624905
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>>15624246
Nothing of value was lost

>> No.15624911

>>15624246
I'll tell you what I told you 10 years ago
>not jailbreaking your kindle

>> No.15624924

>>15624537
So don't get an ereader just use your phone or tablet and dl off the sites that have more books than archive

>> No.15624931

posting articles from more than a fucking decade ago

>> No.15624946

>>15624358
Libgen is Russian. It is safe from this retardation for the near future.

>> No.15624961

>>15624946
You have no idea how deep libgen goes, it's metastasized.

>> No.15625330

>>15624961
Why is that a bad thing?

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>>15624537
>It is trivial for your collection to be erased, selectively or entirely, without your consent or knowledge.
That's what you get for not pirating books (Z-Library). If you have to buy them, de-DRM that shit, so they can't retroactively take them away from you.

>> No.15626392

>>15624302
it's the diameter of the bullet imma put in your temple cracka

>> No.15626410

>>15624924
Kobo supports sideloading (EPUB, CBZ). I think Kindles do too (don't have one to test), but only MOBI files. Both support PDFs.

>>15626392
Ebook management software. It has an atrocious UI, but it's free, and has a plugin to remove Amazon's copy protection.

>> No.15626433

>>15624246
>buying ebooks
Do boomers really come here?

>> No.15626443
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15626443

>>15624246
>Orwell, 1984? That should be here in the Guinness Books, right? I think we have one

>> No.15626493

>>15626410
>atrocious UI,
It's a pretty good UI wtf

unless you mean the reader
yeah that one sucks

>> No.15626507

>>15624302
Ebook viewing and editing program. Free and amazingly versatile for handling all sorts of file types for digital reading

>> No.15626516

>>15624246
And that's a plusgood thing.

>> No.15626520

>>15624246
>2009/07/18
Fucking time travelling riot niggers!

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>>15624246
Yeah, I'm thinking this is pretty based.

>> No.15626793

>>15626520
To be fair, Google also can delete docs from your storage and have done so recently.

The authoritarian arm of technology is growing.

>> No.15626820

Suspicion of Amazon and it’s authoritarian tendency is somehow part of their marketing structure and has been for a long time, article is 10 years old. Deleting just Orwell is too obvious, you should assume they know what it looks like.

>> No.15626834

Anyone else use IRChighway to download ebooks?

>> No.15626837

>>15625330
It isn't.

>> No.15626838

>>15626834
Used to, a long time ago.

>> No.15627171

>>15624246
>banning Orwell
its almost as if they're pushing an agenda.

>> No.15627173

>>15624293
>200,000 pdfs
>900 GB
>calibre
nah

>> No.15628088 [DELETED] 

>>15624246
Eh if they don't want us to read them its probably for the best

>> No.15628094

Eh if they don't want us to read her it's probably for the best..

>> No.15628127

>>15624246
>NYT
All threads that begin with a link or reference to an article in the mainstream media should be deleted.