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Maybe not a super popular opinion on HN, but this effectively changes nothing for me. I love reading on my kindle, by far the most convenient way to buy and rea
by Insanity 2y ago
Maybe not a super popular opinion on HN, but this effectively changes nothing for me. I love reading on my kindle, by far the most convenient way to buy and read books for me (esp when traveling often).
It’s good that they are now being upfront about it, but it won’t impact my buying behaviour and it won’t for the majority of readers.
- nunodonato 2y agoand like that, the frog boils
- kohbo 2y ago"doesn't affect me!" Yet.
- caconym_ 2y agoMy daughter will grow up with direct access to my entire library of books and all other media, and I'm beginning to think (assuming we have any kind of future beyond current and future crises) that's going to be an enormous advantage for her.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIf you somehow acquired the ePub by some other means, you can still side-load it to your Kindle, correct?
- dewey 2y agoIt's not that easy on the latest versions at least through Calibre where there's a very common issue that if your Kindle is connected to wifi it will remove side-loaded books (through a "bug" or something else). There's more info on that issue in many threads like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1g7yt0r/psa_the_new_kindle_2024_are_bad_for_sideloading/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1g7yt0r/psa_the_ne...
- Mindwipe 2y agoYou can literally just email any random ePub to a Kindle and it works. (The cover art is finikey sometimes.)
- Hikikomori 2y agoThere are alternatives like Kobo.