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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I’m guessing audible will follow soon after.

[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

This won’t stop users from removing DRM. There will always be a way to own your e-books.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago
[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well fuck... Guess i'll need too look at what is available for ebook downloads i my arr stack to get books for my kobo.

The kobo store is mostly useless, and there are limited options available for buying ebooks here, so amazon has been the best option for likely finding what i was looking for.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I looked into the Kobo store and a LOT of the books I have - which are not exactly small titles - aren't available there.

In some cases they've got the first couple books or audiobooks out of a series that currently has 10

[–] rouroborous@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Iquit on Kindle a few years ago. The publicationsI read, like Asimov’s Sci Fi, no longer publish via Kindle. I use Book Funnel, Kobo, Pocket Book and store books on my desktop’s drive.

[–] uraniumcovid@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

did that a couple of days ago thankfully. goodbye amazon, you were never loved.

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I noticed this feature wasn’t available for my Colorsoft and asked support about it. They assured me it would be added later. This is exactly what I expected to happen.

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[–] __init__@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I’m waiting for them to get rid of the send-to-kindle email thing to receive books from calibre. I’m surprised it has survived for this long. I’ve wanted to try out a kobo but can’t justify it cause my 10+ year old kindle still works perfectly fine for reading. But once they remove that feature or drop support for my device, it’s kobo time.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I literally just installed caliber recently. Are they following my every move or something? Trying desperately to prevent other "near techky" people from leaving the market place?

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