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Presumptively, they can’t do this with an unregistered Kindle, right? Which wouldn’t be as convenient, but you could buy books from Amazon, and then use Calibr
by jedieaston 7y ago
Presumptively, they can’t do this with an unregistered Kindle, right?
Which wouldn’t be as convenient, but you could buy books from Amazon, and then use Calibre to strip DRM and send to kindle over USB.
- zozbot234 7y agoWe should not be required to strip invasive DRM as a privacy-protecting measure, that's ridiculous. Buy a physical, paper book, that's not going to track you.
- zaat 7y agoE-books do have some benefits. To list a few: they require much less weight and space, they are searchable, they offer dictionary and they can be delivered to you in seconds regardless of your location.
- zozbot234 7y agoAnd I do take advantage of these benefits when I can do that easily, such as with a plain, DRM-free format. I'm just not going to use invasive DRM-based platforms that come with these blatant privacy concerns.
- ohithereyou 7y agoThis is precisely how I use my Kindle Keyboard that I bought secondhand for cash at a local bookstore. Brought it home, did a factory reset, and only push DRM free books or books after stripping DRM.
- acidictadpole 7y agoYou could, but that's technically against the law (circumventing DRM). You shouldn't have to break the law to protect your privacy. I'm wondering if this person on twitter had any kind of usage-data opt-out that was on their kindle and they just hadn't opted out. I haven't looked at my kindle's settings in a long while, but I'll take a look when I get home tonight.