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Where do you buy your e-books? I've stuck with Kindle, but that's 80% inertia (Amazon has most books, the device works well enough) and 20% existing library is

Where do you buy your e-books? I've stuck with Kindle, but that's 80% inertia (Amazon has most books, the device works well enough) and 20% existing library is Kindle e-books.

roughly 7mo ago
Kobo has a bookstore that’s pretty comprehensive - I haven’t found anything missing. Not sure that gets you out of DRM land, but at least you’re not giving money to Jeff Bezos.
avgDev 7mo ago
One could buy a physical book, and then "find" digital version of it. Seems fair to me?
- phs318u 7mo ago
  Seems fair to me too. I have done and continue to do this. I have no ethical qualms doing so. Should I?
  - alistairSH 7mo ago
    I don’t. I just don’t want physical books. I don’t have the space to store them. And the kindle is far more portable.
    - johanyc 7mo ago
      You can throw the physical book away or recycle it as paper. Buying them is just to make payments for the pirated books.
      - phs318u 6mo ago
        Please don’t do this. At least donate to your local library or thrift store.
bentley 7mo ago
For public domain books, I use Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive, generally in that order. For copyrighted books, anywhere as long as it provides DRM‐free EPUB or PDF. • Humble Bundle introduces a nice sale every few days. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Use on Any Device”. Representative recent purchases: complete Peanuts (42 vols.) for $25, complete Wheel of Time (17 vols.) for $18, complete Malazan (17 vols.) for $18, complete Lone Wolf and Cub (28 vols.) for $18… I check Humble pretty regularly now. • Kobo Store. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)”. • Google Play. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Content protection: This content is DRM free.” • Barnes and Noble. Key marker for DRM‐free: “At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.” Amazon rolled out DRM‐free ebooks (for some books) earlier this year, but at this point they’ve permanently lost my business. Also, sites to purchase DRM‐free audiobooks: • Libro.fm • Downpour

Where do you buy your e-books? I've stuck with Kindle, but that's 80% inertia (Amazon has most books, the device works well enough) and 20% existing library is Kindle e-books.

roughly 7mo ago

Kobo has a bookstore that’s pretty comprehensive - I haven’t found anything missing. Not sure that gets you out of DRM land, but at least you’re not giving money to Jeff Bezos.

avgDev 7mo ago

One could buy a physical book, and then "find" digital version of it. Seems fair to me?

phs318u 7mo ago
Seems fair to me too. I have done and continue to do this. I have no ethical qualms doing so. Should I?
- alistairSH 7mo ago
  I don’t. I just don’t want physical books. I don’t have the space to store them. And the kindle is far more portable.
  - johanyc 7mo ago
    You can throw the physical book away or recycle it as paper. Buying them is just to make payments for the pirated books.
    - phs318u 6mo ago
      Please don’t do this. At least donate to your local library or thrift store.

bentley 7mo ago

For public domain books, I use Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive, generally in that order. For copyrighted books, anywhere as long as it provides DRM‐free EPUB or PDF. • Humble Bundle introduces a nice sale every few days. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Use on Any Device”. Representative recent purchases: complete Peanuts (42 vols.) for $25, complete Wheel of Time (17 vols.) for $18, complete Malazan (17 vols.) for $18, complete Lone Wolf and Cub (28 vols.) for $18… I check Humble pretty regularly now. • Kobo Store. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free)”. • Google Play. Key marker for DRM‐free: “Content protection: This content is DRM free.” • Barnes and Noble. Key marker for DRM‐free: “At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.” Amazon rolled out DRM‐free ebooks (for some books) earlier this year, but at this point they’ve permanently lost my business. Also, sites to purchase DRM‐free audiobooks: • Libro.fm • Downpour