With your capitalisation of "rip" there, I nearly had a heart attack thinking something (implausibly) had signalled the end of rips from streaming platforms lol.
janguv
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It would stop you from using the email sideload option, which is my favourite way to get books on. But you could turn WiFi on just for that and off again. More of an issue would be sync with the Kindle app, say on your phone. So if you don't take it everywhere but find yourself stuck and wanting to carry on reading, you can get your phone out and pick up where you left off. Honestly, that's pretty handy. But everyone's use case is different.
As others have said – nope. You can get a cheap enough Kindle without ads (and yes, it is absurd that there's an ad-version in the first place), and sideloading is a piece of piss. Either use Calibre or set up a Kindle email address. I mostly do the latter these days. The only downside (and the main upside to using KoReader, I would think) is that you don't get the full range of typography options sending over EPUBs this way – you would have to do a KFX conversation first (again possible with Calibre, but a bit of faff).
Amazon actually deprecated the MOBI standard on there and switched to EPUB.
You would just find the directory location of the DRM locked ebook, put it in Calibre with the DeDRM addon installed and enabled, and hey presto, you have an unlocked clone. (This works on MacOS)
You might do, but you might also want to just use Stremio with a Real Debrid account and save yourself ballache in the process.
(If I can pay with mobile)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so long as you root with Magisk and configure the denylist, installing the SafetyNet Fix and changing the Props if you need to spoof a device ID, then you'll always be able to use Google Pay/contactless, regardless of whether on Lineage or another custom ROM.
I'll throw MP3tag into the mix as a tagger/formatter. Always preferred it to Picard and the solo dev seems a nice guy.
It's a question of whether they would ever get subpoenaed really, and then whether they'd comply. I'm not sure it's worth it from the copyright holders' perspective. The individual users are getting DDL links, so they're not uploading – i.e. "sharing" – anything. These days, if holders go after anyone, it's for the sharing not the downloading. As for compliance, I don't think we have any evidence one way or the other, as (afaik) they are yet to be subpoenaed (despite running for a long time).
It's also worth noting if you do want to do this totally privately: when you buy an RD subscription, you cannot use a VPN during that process (they block known IPs). So, you would want to use a public WiFi connection somewhere, and choose an anonymous payment method like paysafecard.