As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    5 hours ago

    This is a good look under the hood on why so much mainstream software actively sucks these days. They put so many fucking resources into dark capitalist shit, and zero into making it a good user experience.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    5 hours ago

    That was a fun and interesting read.

    When we buy an ebook, they are selling us a “license” to use it on their terms. We technically don’t own the book. Which is horseshit. Kudos to Pixelmelt for oursmarting their obfuscation techniques.

    I use Kobo and Calibre because A-Z sucks so bad. And if an ebook is exclusive to A-Z, I’ll just never read it. Fortunately 99.9% of the ebooks I’ve wanted are on Kobo.

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    68·
    11 hours ago

    That was an interesting read.

    If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
    I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

  • hummingbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    372·
    11 hours ago

    I bought my first ebook from amazon

    Just don’t do that. If you give money to this company, they’ll continue to go down the path they’re on. Enshitification.

    • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I have “purchased” thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.

      They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It’s a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.

    • plm00@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      That’s doable until you need a book that’s an Amazon exclusive.