I have a pocketbook instead of a Kindle cause of this lol
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Was going to say, this has solidified my next ereader choice being Kobo
Just got two kobos this month, for me and my wife. I had had one back in 2012 and wasn't reading much in recent years, but she had owned a handful of kindles before (never any other eReader) and lost all her book collection after her credit card was cloned and amazon deleted all accounts that had ever used it "for safety".
Her kobo arrived earlier and for a whole week she would come tell me all the amazing stuff she could do on it that she never thought possible. Incredible technological advancements like sending a file directly to it.
I was like "it's OK honey, you're out of that abusive relationship now"
My kindle is from 2011, got it for free from someone getting rid of it. It's old and dumb as shit and Amazon fortunately doesn't care about it anymore.
Since I got it, it never had an Amazon DRM-ed e-book loaded on it. I intend to keep it that way.
This is why I bought some Chinese android ereader than an amazon Kindle.
Bad corporate behaviour is a political problem.
Here we are talking about technological solutions for political problems. Why?
Are there any good "open" alternatives to the Paperwhite? I've been drooling over getting an e-ink reader for like a month straight now.
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/kindle-models.html
Most of the current models can be jailbroken, but I'd definitely rather another route. (Not having to deal with checking second-hand market seller's firmware versions etc)
PocketBook if you want openness and long runtime (book-replacement), it runs plain Linux.
Kobo/Onyx if you want Android flexibility, with possibility to flash LineageOS/PostmarketOS (though they're slow for tablet use).
But personally, if you're not using it to transcript notes (recommendation Remarkable) or want more than merely reading books, i would go with a tablet.
So happy I just exported my collection last week and have closed forever my Amazon account the same day.
I must say, escaping Amazon is the significant action I took in my life that was completely inconsequent on my daily living.
Impossible? So cameras and OCR don't work anymore?
If a human can see it, it can be pirated
It’s a weird concept that you buy a device and then have to find an exploit that hasn’t been patched in order to do what you like with it as though you’re a hacker trying to breach someone else’s system, but it’s actually your own system you’re trying to breach.
Amazon is making it impossible for me to consider a Kindle.