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I've recently bought a Kobo, and had great success removing the DRM from my Kindle library, then loading all my books there onto my Kobo. Just food for thought that such a thing is possible
I don't know, there are a couple of books that have Adobe DRM on them at every bookstore where I found the book.
Are you saying, it's possible to get Amazon books onto a non-Kindle device? That's actually pretty much the only bookstore where I never looked at before.
Unpopular take and I might get beaten up for it, but if you have already paid for the book and you can't take it with you because it has DRM, then IMHO, it's ok to pirate it. You paid for it, it's yours and they're taking it away from you because you chose not to use their device.
That's basically my attitude. As usual, piracy is a service problem.
100%. I'd like to support people who work hard on their products, but corporations love to be the unnecessary middleman that enshitifactes things along the way.
When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there's no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.
I'm sorry for your loss first <3
Second, is this store available around the states (assuming you're from the USA)? That also reminded me of a store near me that sells discounted books. Also, fuck Amazon. They ruined the book industry, they'll never receive a single penny for me on any book.