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Amazon no longer allows eBook downloads from their website.

by RandomBacon 1y ago

henry2023 1y ago
Then don’t buy from them, plenty of venues
- EA-3167 1y ago
  I’ve purchased and backed up over 700 kindle books over the years. The day Amazon made backups impossible I switched to Kobo and have never looked back. Amazon can can go forth and multiply with itself.
  - mapontosevenths 1y ago
    Backups aren't impossible, its just a bit harder than it used to be. That said, Kobo is great if they have the book you're looking for.
- geraldwhen 1y ago
  Many with trade offs. I recommend the pocketbook 4. You can disable recommendations easily, and the unit mounts as a disk so you can read and write books as if it were an SD card. No internet required. No sync software required. It’s quite nice!
  - GrantMoyer 1y ago
    Ditto. It's also significantly lighter weight than competing readers (at least when I bought mine), has physical buttons, has color models, and has really good battery life possibly because it runs a custom Linux instead of Android.
  - neilv 1y ago
    I really liked my PocketBook InkPad Lite. After the one-time firmware update, I put it into airplane mode permanently, and always just updated DRM-free books on by plugging it in as USB Storage, and `rsync`-ing `~/doc/` to it. The update script was pretty much this (on a laptop set up not to automatically mount removable filesystems): #!/bin/sh -x DeviceMountPoint="/media/pocketbook" mount "$DeviceMountPoint" || exit 1 cd ~/doc || exit 1 rsync -crltv . "${DeviceMountPoint}/." Status=$? umount "$DeviceMountPoint" exit $Status And the `/etc/fstab` entry was something like: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB-FS_PocketBook_MYSERIALNUMBER-0:0 /media/pocketbook vfat user,noauto 0 0
patja 1y ago
I switched to a Kobo device and have zero regrets other than that I didn't switch earlier
- exe34 1y ago
  my next device will be a kobo, for sure! I just have two old Kindles that I keep alive because they're still useful. I ripped the drm on all ebooks I bought from Amazon because I don't trust rich people (and I was right), and now I only buy drm-free.
exe34 1y ago
the copy of the ebook you download doesn't have to be the one you paid for. if buying isn't owning, copying isn't stealing.

Amazon no longer allows eBook downloads from their website.

henry2023 1y ago

Then don’t buy from them, plenty of venues

EA-3167 1y ago
I’ve purchased and backed up over 700 kindle books over the years. The day Amazon made backups impossible I switched to Kobo and have never looked back. Amazon can can go forth and multiply with itself.
- mapontosevenths 1y ago
  Backups aren't impossible, its just a bit harder than it used to be. That said, Kobo is great if they have the book you're looking for.
geraldwhen 1y ago
Many with trade offs. I recommend the pocketbook 4. You can disable recommendations easily, and the unit mounts as a disk so you can read and write books as if it were an SD card. No internet required. No sync software required. It’s quite nice!
- GrantMoyer 1y ago
  Ditto. It's also significantly lighter weight than competing readers (at least when I bought mine), has physical buttons, has color models, and has really good battery life possibly because it runs a custom Linux instead of Android.
- neilv 1y ago
  I really liked my PocketBook InkPad Lite. After the one-time firmware update, I put it into airplane mode permanently, and always just updated DRM-free books on by plugging it in as USB Storage, and `rsync`-ing `~/doc/` to it. The update script was pretty much this (on a laptop set up not to automatically mount removable filesystems): #!/bin/sh -x DeviceMountPoint="/media/pocketbook" mount "$DeviceMountPoint" || exit 1 cd ~/doc || exit 1 rsync -crltv . "${DeviceMountPoint}/." Status=$? umount "$DeviceMountPoint" exit $Status And the `/etc/fstab` entry was something like: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB-FS_PocketBook_MYSERIALNUMBER-0:0 /media/pocketbook vfat user,noauto 0 0

patja 1y ago

I switched to a Kobo device and have zero regrets other than that I didn't switch earlier

exe34 1y ago
my next device will be a kobo, for sure! I just have two old Kindles that I keep alive because they're still useful. I ripped the drm on all ebooks I bought from Amazon because I don't trust rich people (and I was right), and now I only buy drm-free.

exe34 1y ago

the copy of the ebook you download doesn't have to be the one you paid for. if buying isn't owning, copying isn't stealing.