Amazon and DRM changes

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Five character minimum.

Hmmm... (source) clocks in at 8 characters. Well above the minimum 5 characters. 160% overkill.

Not to mention the possibility of using color=transparent. Though you might have to quote the message to see those characters, they still count.

Such as a suggestion that remedial math might be in some people's future!

[Ma'am-I-Am]

Originally Posted by C-novice

So which is better? Reading a print book or reading from a device ?

Frankly, I'd rather read pbooks. I love the feel of them and the ease of flipping through or back and other things. But the space required to store them, the cost, and my diminished eyesight make ebooks a necessity. I still gaze longingly at some of the pbooks I have.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Ma'am-I-Am

Frankly, I'd rather read pbooks. I love the feel of them and the ease of flipping through or back and other things. But the space required to store them, the cost, and my diminished eyesight make ebooks a necessity. I still gaze longingly at some of the pbooks I have.

I'm the opposite. I dislike paper books. They're heavy and uncomfortable to hold, you can't customize anything (font, line height etc) and you can't search them. And I've never liked the feel and smell of paper books.

I still have quite a lot of paper books, but I very rarely read them. Only if there is no ebook edition and it's something I really, really want to read. Otherwise I don't touch them. It always amazes me to read about someone liking the feel and smell of paper. Ugh.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Lys

Aristophanes looks around

Name-calling is as old as the humanity, I guess.

[ownedbycats]

Is a bit more painful to drop 300 books on your feet than it is to drop an eReader containing 300 eBooks.

[CloudReader]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

Hmm, an AZW3 that isn't available to E-ink Kindles? Would you mind sharing the ASIN? Was it published this year?

Sure, it was B0BTBRNGNX

[CloudReader]

Originally Posted by jhowell

A mistake about the file type seems like the most likely explanation to me. We will probably never know unless CloudReader provides more information.

No, it's definitely an azw3 - I still have it on the HDD.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by CloudReader

Sure, it was B0BTBRNGNX

That is a fixed layout children's book. Another format that is not supported on e-ink Kindle devices.

It's odd that the product page for that book has no list of supported devices.

I was looking in the wrong place. It definitely does not work on Kindle devices.

[EowynCarter]

Good to know. Guess i'll stick to kobo.

And make sure i have a copy of the few books i got from amazon.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by jhowell

That is a fixed layout children's book. Another format that is not supported on e-ink Kindle devices.

I wonder if it could be freed using the older Kindle for Android method.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by C-novice

So which is better? Reading a print book or reading from a device ?

I definitely prefer to read on an E-ink device. But I still like to get nice print editions occasionally.

[DiapDealer]

I hope to never have to hold, own, dust, carry, box, move, loan (and subsequently ask to have the loaned book returned), smell, or feel a print book ever again. I miss nothing about them. Especially not waiting on them to be physically shipped to my quality-book-store/library-devoid location.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

I wonder if it could be freed using the older Kindle for Android method.

It should be possible. However the result will be in Amazon’s variant of fixed-layout which is not supported by calibre and many non-Kindle readers.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I hope to never have to hold, own, dust, carry, box, move, loan (and subsequently ask to have the loaned book returned), smell, or feel a print book ever again. I miss nothing about them. Especially not waiting on them to be physically shipped to my quality-book-store/library-devoid location.

Yeah, I agree. I guess I miss the stuff 'around' buying books. Going into used book stores, stumbling on that gem you've been looking for, browsing among the stacks at an excellent book store like Aunties in Spokane or Powell's in Portland. But clearly I don't miss that enough to switch back.

And the switch to shopping for ebooks has its own perks. Now when I buy old midlist books, the author actually gets paid, unlike when I bought used paperbacks. And using ereaderIQ has a similar feeling to stumbling on something unexpected, when a book you added to your wishlist months ago unexpectedly goes on sale.

[darthyoda6]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

I like how Amazon does it. With Kobo, you have to contact customer service to get them to reset your book. It's nice that any of vendors give you access to updates if you want them. With physical books you'd just have to buy another copy.

Unfortunately Amazon's update system only works on books you've "purchased", and only if they've never been read through KU at anytime. Any book I read on KU, whether I purchased it later or just re-read on KU, doesn't get the updated versions, and I still have to contact Amazon support to force the updated version to come through. It 99% of the time doesn't show an update link on the manage your content page, even though you you there's an update.