10-15-2024, 02:36 AM | #676 |
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10-15-2024, 02:53 AM | #677 |
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As of this weekend STEAM now has a checkout banner reminding you that whatever you buy isn't a game but a license to play your game.
Does Amazon explicitly come out and say something similar, that you aren't buying an ebook you're infact buying a license or some such to read your book? I mostly read KU titles and free book club things so I haven't bought a Kindle book for a while now. |
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(Personally, it doesn't matter to me since I use Send-to-Kindle to transfer all my personal docs — yes, yes, I know Amazon is going to steal my soul as a result, blah, blah, blah ... — but sharing this modification may calm some of the uproar over here among those who want to sideload via USB.) ETA: If anyone's willing to use Sigil, Doitsu's KindleGenQt plugin can be modified to create AZW3 with cdetype PDOC. Last edited by odamizu; 10-15-2024 at 04:04 AM. |
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It may be a calibre issue, but it doesn't mean it's ok for Amazon to just delete random files from users' devices without any action on the user's part.
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10-15-2024, 10:55 AM | #681 |
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It's not a Calibre issue. It's purely an Amazon bug. They can't be doing it deliberately as the publicity and possibly fines would be disastrous.
There are multiple issues now with the Amazon Kindle system and mostly it's stupidity. |
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An e-book on the device shouldn't have to exactly match the current version that would be downloaded from Amazon to be considered "legal to stay on the device". Even stripping the DRM shouldn't matter, as I'm pretty sure Amazon doesn't keep track of the exact days a publisher requested no DRM for a book. So, even if the current book on Amazon has DRM on download, it's possible that an older one did not. It's only fairly recently that all books from Amazon have a form of DRM. |
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10-15-2024, 12:47 PM | #684 |
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So the answer is no, then. Unmodified side-loaded purchases are not being deleted by Amazon with this bug. Only files that have been diddled in some way. I'm not making a value judgement here, but when tracking down bugs, it doesn't help to confuse the issue by providing technically inaccurate info. What Amazon should or shouldn't do is not relevant when trying to tell people IF they will be affected by the bug, or how to potentially work around being affected by it.
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10-15-2024, 02:21 PM | #687 |
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When such errors are that extensive and reported to amazon, amazon will issue a warning to the publisher to fix them or have the book pulled from amazon. |
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10-15-2024, 02:30 PM | #689 | |
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Not that the above matters in the case we are discussing. If Amazon removes content from your device that you didn't get from them, and thus no license from them is involved, under what legal premise do they claim they get to remove that content? There would have to be some kind of clause in the Kindle hardware/firmware "license" that says "By connecting this device to the internet, you agree to allow it to connect to Amazon servers and for Amazon to modify/delete any of its contents, including non-Amazon content, if said content contains the letters E B O and K". Knowing Amazon, the above clause probably DOES exist in small print on line 9247 of the purchase/license agreement. |
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