Comment by Nicholas_C
4 hours ago
This kind of stuff is why I no longer use a kindle. I use a kobo which IMHO is not as good of a product but it's worth not supporting this behavior.
4 hours ago
This kind of stuff is why I no longer use a kindle. I use a kobo which IMHO is not as good of a product but it's worth not supporting this behavior.
Where do you buy your e-books?
I've stuck with Kindle, but that's 80% inertia (Amazon has most books, the device works well enough) and 20% existing library is Kindle e-books.
One could buy a physical book, and then "find" digital version of it. Seems fair to me?
Seems fair to me too. I have done and continue to do this. I have no ethical qualms doing so. Should I?
Kobo has a bookstore that’s pretty comprehensive - I haven’t found anything missing. Not sure that gets you out of DRM land, but at least you’re not giving money to Jeff Bezos.
Because Amazon stops supporting devices after 14 years? (while they can still be used to read books already downloaded)
Really?
In this case the reason for dropping support is most likely that the only DRM they can support on that older hardware has been broken. There's no technical reason why it can't be supported, and I doubt it would cost them much (or even anything) to continue support.
Meanwhile, I can still read physical books I've had since I was a child, 40 years ago. The Kindle is undeniably more convenient than physical books, but this is absolutely an unnecessary sunset of these devices.
In my post I said "this kind of stuff" which also includes their DRM policies (which is the real reason they are ending the users' kindle support).