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He may be talking about Kindle not using an open format.
by Krollifi 4y ago
He may be talking about Kindle not using an open format.
- jjtheblunt 4y agothat made me chuckle
- sjg007 4y agoMore that Amazon can take away your books. Don't need to burn them, just remotely remove them.
- drakonka 4y agoThen more applicable advice seems like it could've been "Everyone should go to their Kindle library and download their ebooks as soon as they purchase them."
- exfascist 4y agoIIRC they can remove downloaded books. Better advice is "no non-free software in the house" and "mind your external dependencies" but that's a bit too extreme for most people.
- drakonka 4y agoThey can remove books you download to your Kindle ereader, but they can't remove book files you download to your actual PC from the Kindle library.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoIronically, Amazon has previously deleted copies of 1984 their customers had already downloaded to their kindles and other devices. https://theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-kindle-1984 https://theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-kindle...
- drakonka 4y agoI don't mean downloading to Kindle, but actually downloading the book file to your machine where it is no longer at Amazon's mercy. If the book has DRM Calibre takes care of that, it's how many people transfer Amazon bought books to other ereaders.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoI'm not familiar with Calibre but AFIK, all kindle books have DRM.
- drakonka 4y agoIt is a setting the author chooses when publishing their book through KDP, and some authors choose not to enable it. Pretty sure it is enabled by default though.