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Originally Posted by mgmueller
In another poll (Kindle Voyage <----> Kobo Aura H2O) it's pretty obvious:
Sideloading content seems to be important for most members in mobileread - and this seems to be one of the main reasons if buying Kobo over Kindle.
Personally, I don't sideload anymore for at least 3 years or so.
Of my friends sideloading content, only one is using his own content (= buying, in his case, from Amazon, stripping from DRM and loading onto his 2 other readers). All other "have their content from somewhere else".
One of my friends even argued: "The reader is 150 Euro. A single book would be € 15, so after having downloaded 10 books I'm even. And I already have more than 3.000".
Again, personally I'm not downloading "somewhere else" anymore. It's still easy enough, but I don't want to bother about conversion, correcting metadata and such. And I'm not that fond of pirating anyway, having earned my income for a few years in related markets...
Anyway...
I'd be interested to know:
When talking about "sideloading content": Does this mean downloading "from somewhere else" for you? Or does it mean, you've bought the content, but simply free it from DRM and use it on other hardware?
Multiple choices allowed = needed.
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I buy my books mostly from Amazon, some from Baen, some from a few other places (fewer other places now than there used to be...) If I don't buy the book directly from Amazon, I do send it to Amazon's cloud so that I can pull it down to my Kindle directly. (Just for clarification, I DO consider doing that "sideloading" books to my Kindle.)
I refuse to buy books that use Adobe DRM because
1. I don't trust Adobe to keep my information safe.
2. It's a cumbersome practice, and I don't want to encourage it.
Adobe's process REQUIRES that a reader be connected to a PC, and I just absolutely reject that as a process that should need to be used in modern times.
I use Calibre, both as a way to organize my books and as a backup solution. I would like to know why you seem to equate "sideloading" with piracy? I never have, actually, especially because if a person buys books from Google and wants to read on an e-ink screen they kind of have to sideload. Same if a person buys from Smashwords, OmniLit, Baen, or direct from any publisher.
When I first saw this poll, I almost chose the choices that used the phrase "from somewhere else", until I realized that you were talking about pirate sites. Why do you not consider any of the sources of legitimate ebooks that are not associated with a specific device?
Shari