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Amazon is changing what is written in books (youtu.be)
submitted 2 days ago by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Lol. This is the exact same on...checks notes... every single other platform I know of. I have a kobo sage and it's the same, except that kobo runs on Linux and they don't lock their system. You can literally "jailbreak" it and still get updates from them. They also don't lock their books with encryption like on kindle so they lock you in. IMHO, there is 0 reasons to buy a kindle now, period.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I’ve tried the Kobo store (sold my Kindle and got a Libra 2 Color), but the selection is a bit lacking.

Some books just don’t exist there, which means I can’t just click and buy the next one from the Kobo UI.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (8 children)

You can buy those books (if possible) from the publisher directly and load them onto your Kobo via a computer.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, but it’s not something I can do with one click on the sofa, which was my original point

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@lepinkainen @penquin Kobo has a basic browser so you probably could. I downloaded a few copyright-free books from standardebooks.org directly onto my Kobo the other day.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I “could”, but it’s still a ton harder than just clicking “buy next book in series”

TBH it’s easier to plug calibre-web as a store in Kobo and just “acquire” all the books in all the series from … sources. Then you get the one click downloads easily 🤓

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