Anonymous #1 1d

Ah that sucks. Do you know if other ereaders have anything preventing this or is it a pretty standard practice?

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Anonymous OP 1d

To my knowledge due to copyright reasons I think they’re all this way/gotta comply with DRM (digital rights management). HOWEVER, if you’re willing to do some work, you can take efiles, extract the raw epubs to put on an ereader that doesn’t lock you into their own eco system and supports epub, pdf, etc. Android based ones are pretty good for this (Boox) and Pocketbook (not android but pretty good for offline, local storage and a management). I mean not that I would ever support this 👀👀👀

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Anonymous #2 1d

Search up the guide and refer to wtv people say on Reddit, I haven’t bought a single thing on my kindle and I have over a hundred books on it

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Anonymous #1 23h

Ive been looking into kobos most recently and I think they do this too?? I have some epubs on my phone that I’ve gotten directly from the authors sites and they say they are drm free so maybe that’s they way to go? I just don’t like reading on my phone which is why I was looking for an ereader to transfer them to. It would be nice if I could access my public library too but I don’t think kobos do that from what I’ve seen

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Anonymous #2 23h

I don’t mind paying for ebooks, I just don’t like the idea that I dont own them after purchasing. If they’re on sale or super cheap tho I may make an exception, or just find an ereader that supports the library app my local library uses. I tend to buy books physically that I like digitally anyway so doesn’t make sense to buy it twice

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Anonymous OP 23h

I own all of mine and there ain’t much Amazon can do about it as long as you keep the kindle on airplane mode. It’s free and you have ownership.

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Anonymous OP 23h

If your library works through the overdrive app it should work. There’s a couple apps kobo supports that libraries work through I think. Ofc you can’t keep the epub file but it beats nothing

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Anonymous #2 23h

It’s not ownership if you have to softbrick the device to avoid amazon taking the shit you paid for back (which also means you can’t get NEW books either)

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Anonymous #1 23h

If Amazon can’t do a thing about the books I pirate, I own it. Fuck Amazon. And relatively new books isn’t that much of an issue, I’ve downloaded them for my mother before. Unless you mean adding to my collection, which isn’t a problem at all I can add whatever, whenever I want.

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Anonymous #1 21h

You don’t gotta downvote everything when you’re wrong and speak about something you know nothing about btw. Stay mad tho ✌️🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

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Anonymous #1 20h

Yeah that’s what I’m starting to think will work best for me. If I borrow from the library on an ereader, I still get the convenience and if I like it I can buy the physical book for my collection. My library uses the hoopla app, which doesn’t work with kobo, but I did a little more research and think I can connect a cord to my computer and move the ebooks from hooplas website that way? Def an option, I’m still looking but this is feeling more appealing. I think boox supports hoopla as well

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Anonymous OP 18h

Hoopla doesn’t let you download files, so if you really want to use your library’s app you’ll need to use a Boox or another android based ereader

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Anonymous #1 17h

Thank you for all your advice!

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Anonymous #2 14h

I’m not the one downvoting you bro 😭 believe it or not other people can think you’re wrong too

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