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Originally Posted by markweaster
I have been building my personal eLibrary for decades and have over 4000 volumes. My Kindle goes literally everywhere with me; since retiring nine years ago, I am never ever without it. Most of these books have come from the library, but many have come from book sellers including many from Amazon. It is only for my personal use. I have never given a copy of a book to anyone. I only strip off the DRM so I can keep them in my Calibre library "forever" to reread, for reference, and to collect my reviews. So, I am bummed by this latest Amazon change that prevents me from continuing a practice I have had most of my adult life. My question for the community is, is this inability temporary or should I stop buying books from Amazon forever? Thank you for any advice you can offer. My Kindle Unlimited renewal awaits your input.
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The earliest ebooks I remember buying were from Fictionwise. I now have almost 19,000 ebooks in my library. I'm almost positive I've never kept a KU book. I just don't believe in keeping library books. If I'm going to keep them then I buy them. However, I haven't bothered keeping track of which books I got where (by the time it occurred to me to do so I had way too many books to go back & figure it out).
I do know that I have bought almost 2000 Kindle books (verified from my Device & Content page) and I've gotten a ton of books from PG. I think I had around a thousand from Fictionwise when it went out of business. The others (got to be at least half, I think) came from miscellaneous sites. It pains me to admit it but some of these are probably pirated-but how can I track down which ones are?
The main indicator is the poor quality of some of the books. As often as not when I find one that's so poor I suspect it's a pirated copy then I'll go back (usually to Amazon) & purchase it so I know it's legitmate-and hope that it's higher quality. Unfortunately that's not always the case.