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Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by IvyMike on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:22PM (#23316550)
Your other comments are dead, but I'm still missing something. Why can't you buy it in the kindle store and send to your kindle over WiFi?

P.S. I am very aware that your operating system doesn't support Adobe Digital Editions; I just don't understand why your operating system needs to get involved at all.

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Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by ryukafalz on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:54PM (#23316883)
It's possible they've replaced the Kindle's reader software with free software like Koreader: https://github.com/koreader/koreader

This is what I run on my Kobo - it's quite nice! It has an RSS reader, Wallabag integration, cloud storage integration, a Lua plugin API... but it can't open DRM'd ebooks.

This is what's frustrating about DRM for me: it restricts the software you can use to only software from huge corporations. Want to make a small tweak to your reader? Nope, you're not allowed.

I only buy ebooks when I can find a DRM-free source for them, which pretty much means Tor/Baen/Humble/etc. I could buy DRM'd books and strip the DRM, but I'd rather not support the practice; I'm more likely to buy a physical book in that case.

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Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by cbHXBY1D on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:14PM (#23318366)
Plato is also good: https://github.com/baskerville/plato

I switched to it from Koreader.

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