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Originally Posted by Tarana
Library books. Simply turn airplane mode on until you finish the book. You can then finish the book even though the return time has passed.
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Now that's an interesting trick!
Unfortunately, I use my Kindle Fire for many other things than reading eBooks, so turning off internet access would not work for me. I doubt there is a "firewall" app I can install and configure on my Kindle Fire to block only the library traffic. I'll have to look, but I'm not hopeful of finding anything like that for Android (technically "FireOS" in my case).
Although, ... I could set up a VPN from my Kindle Fire to my home router and force all network traffic down the tunnel. I've already set that up when I first got this Kindle Fire, but normally I don't leave the VPN up 24x7, I only invoke the VPN when I want to secure WiFi traffic when I'm outside of my home. But I could leave the VPN up 24x7, and then implement the appropriate blocks on my home firewall.
Probably more effort than it's worth. Most certainly more effort than it's worth! However, being a computer engineer, network guy, and Linux guru by trade, I am intrigued just coming up with ideas like this. Even if they're impractical, they're good brain exercises.