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I'm very much into sideloading. |
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80 | 60.61% |
I don't care much about sideloading. |
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5 | 3.79% |
I buy from my merchant of choice, strip from DRM and sideload to my hardware of choice. |
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103 | 78.03% |
I download my content for free from "somewhere else", maybe convert to the target format and sideload to my hardware of choice. |
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12 | 9.09% |
I'm sideloading to save my invest (=not losing books you originally bought in another format). |
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75 | 56.82% |
I'm sideloading to save money (=not having to buy all books, but find some "somewhere else"). |
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9 | 6.82% |
I'm mainly converting to ePUB, it's the most open and versatile format. |
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38 | 28.79% |
I'm converting to whatever format I need for my momentary hardware of choice. |
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39 | 29.55% |
I try to avoid paying for eBooks, it's easy to find all my stuff online. |
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2 | 1.52% |
I don't mind paying for eBooks, it's relatively cheap anyway. |
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48 | 36.36% |
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I realize that, but I was wondering why it was done that way, given the ambiguity of the wording of the questions and how some are interpreting them in regards to piracy. Why on earth should people put their names to a poll where their responses could be so easily misconstrued, to their detriment?
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I would say it's pretty simple - most pirates sideload, and I think that's obvious. Particularly those who use eink devices - not exactly the speediest at navigating the web!
I don't think that there's any reason to believe most sideloaders are pirates, however. |
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Mine are all books I've bought from various sources over the years - most were MSLit for my PocketPC - and converted to use first on my iPod touch then iPad and later Kindle. Most were from Fictionwise, Books on Board and Powells. Unfortunately some of my books were lost, and by keeping them in Calibre I hope not to lose any more.
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I always worried about what happens if I lose an ereader or it's stolen, and anyone can then buy up hundreds of books before I realized it was gone since the reader stays logged in. |
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This is one reason why I use a "dummy" account(not the account I buy books with) on my Kobo and sideload everything rather than sync. That and the Kobo desktop app is slow as heck to load books.
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I've bought all of my books legally (or downloaded free ones legally), and I sideload everything. I actually have to, most of the time, as I prefer EPUB as my base format, while my primary e-reader is a Kindle. Therefore I have to remove DRM and then sideload before I can read. Additionally, I don't want to be dependent on any manufacturer's cloud to be able to retrieve my books, and just as Harry, I bought books at many places, such as ebooks.com, BooksOnBoard, Diesel-Ebooks, Kobo, Feedbooks and Amazon. Some of those stores don't even exist anymore, but because I removed DRM and put the books into Calibre, I still have access to them. (They are also in a folder called "Originals", which contains all originals without DRM, but untouched by any edits in Calibre; not even any metadata is corrected.) Quote:
Actually, I have to check that. Can a Kindle be registered, but NOT logged in to Amazon, or do I need to unregister it? Durned. Now I have to turn Wifi on to check, which will make the reader download books that I will have to remove afterward. Last edited by Katsunami; 11-11-2014 at 11:16 AM. |
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I find myself buying from multiple sources lately, but only own a Kindle. I buy where it is cheapest.
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eBook Enthusiast
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It won't, unless you have books queued for download to that device.
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I have a Boox, and 'thus' sideload my books. I buy my books, and try to avoid buying t them from mega-stores like Amazon. And I don't want to be b bound to one seller's ecosystem.
I buy my books (if possible DRM-free or with a digital watermark), download them onto my computer, if I need to I strip DRM (to be sure I can keep reading them 'forever', on every possible device, with the reader of my choice), and organize them with Calibre. |
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I manually switched my main device from the preferred e-ink default, to send them to the Kindle Cloud Reader instead. Now books only queue to my Kindle if I specifically tell them to. Last edited by eschwartz; 11-11-2014 at 03:28 PM. |
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