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Contrarily, I buy physical books and have stopped using my kindle entirely. I prefer to own the book, and not merely a license to use a DRM'ed instance of it.
by na85 9y ago
Contrarily, I buy physical books and have stopped using my kindle entirely.
I prefer to own the book, and not merely a license to use a DRM'ed instance of it.
- pritambaral 9y agoThis is exactly why I use EPUBs. On a non-Kindle e-ink reader, on my phones, and on my computers.
- Operyl 9y agoMeh, there’s a good number of writers that publish their books DRM-free, though. At least, most everything I read has a DRM-free edition for sale.
- mcguire 9y agoAnd then there's non-fiction, which never really works right as an ebook.
- freddie_mercury 9y agoI have hundreds of non-fiction ebooks. It works just fine most of the time. Non-fiction doesn't mean "programming books". The vast majority of non-fiction is plain text with no graphics, maps, or special content whatsoever.
- mcguire 9y agoFootnotes, weirdly, always seem to be a problem. Also, paging back to find a poorly remembered reference is hard.
- ghaff 9y agoFootnotes is one of my complaints about Kindle non-fiction. And personally I love using them. Not in the authoritative documentation sense but in the parenthetical commentary that you might be interested in but which I don’t really want to break the flow of writing to provide. A lot of non-fiction works ok on Kindle but it can be a bit hit or miss. I do generally prefer ebooks though just to decrease clutter at home and because I do a lot of long form reading while traveling.
- freddie_mercury 9y agoI can't say I've ever had problems with footnotes. They work fine for me. Paging back and forth can be slow, I agree. I usually use full-text search. Which doesn't work at all with paper books.
- AdamJacobMuller 9y agoI agree with your sentiment and therefore I use Calibre and strip the DRM.