Well, that's what happens if you make yourself dependent on outside resources like that.
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Theres an open source ebook called the PineNote, for those that dont want proprietary software shutting you down.
I think you meant to post this to LeopardsAteMyFace.
The giant evil monopolistic megacorp enshittified another thing?
Wow!
No way!
Unprecedented!
Older kindles can and should be jailbroken.
Removing DRM is likely completely legal.
Oo trying this today, thanks!
* is definitely legal in most of the world
That said, if anyone has better suggestions for a reader that doesn't involve giving money to a shitty company like Amazon, this would be a great place to post them!
I recently got a Boox Go Color and really enjoy it. The nice thing is that it runs Android so can benefit from the app ecosystem.
I have a Kobo Clara 2E and like it very much.
I have the Libra 2 and love it. Nice thumb rail with page-turning buttons. Doesn't need jailbreaking to install KOReader or do whatever else I want.
It would probably take a lot of work to make like a wizard for low tech people to use for jailbreaking, right? A relative has brain damage and used to be tech savvy but now gets uneasy about things like that. I could jailbreak it for her, specifically, but I keep thinking about people in her situation who were early adopters of ebooks and would love to keep using the same device but can't do steps like that anymore.
Sorry I asked this on your helpful comment! It just made me think of that kindle using relative. I second using that wiki and removing drm from all your books.
It is possible but way beyond my ability. I suspect it would be a pretty complex task because it requires keys to be obtained from Amazon, and the process is often a little different for each of the many many versions of the Kindle. Most people would need a tech-capable helper to do it for them.
Honestly, there should be a law requiring software unlocking for any manufacturer-abandoned hardware.
After I had a Kindle book removed from my account and device years ago, I decided to strip the DRM from my books and host them myself. There are better ways of procuring and storing your media.
What do you use for self-hosting?
Calibre is the main program for doing most things with ebooks. It's plug-in support allows for things like deDRM that you can use for stripping DRM. There are a lot of tutorials out there for it.
There could very well be better alternatives I'm unaware of, but Caliber has worked pretty well for me. If you're using a Kobo, though, I don't think you even need it; it natively supports epub, so you can just connect it to your computer and drag and drop
Maybe don't buy Amazon in the future then?
To be fair, 14+ years of supporting a device with software updates does not seem that bad, and the thing if I remember correctly was VERY cheap.
EDIT: Okay, I'm genuinely confused about the downvotes. Why is 14+ years of device support not good, Lemmy?
- When support ends, you cannot download any of your purchases.
- If you factory reset your device, it will not work. Literally, this is what Amazon said. You will not be able to use your device if you ever need to factory reset it.
- The only thing you can do is read the books you already downloaded.
It’s perfectly fine to no longer make updates for legacy hardware. But to prevent users from downloading the books they paid for is absurd. Ebooks are just fancy packaged HTML files. No reason Amazon should prevent you from downloading them.
The average consumer is screwed and will buy a new device. The more technical users will just jailbreak it. Regardless, this will create lots of ewaste as the average consumer is far from technical.