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View Poll Results: When side loading: Your own content or "from somewhere else"? | |||
I'm very much into sideloading. | 80 | 60.61% | |
I don't care much about sideloading. | 5 | 3.79% | |
I buy from my merchant of choice, strip from DRM and sideload to my hardware of choice. | 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. | 12 | 9.09% | |
I'm sideloading to save my invest (=not losing books you originally bought in another format). | 75 | 56.82% | |
I'm sideloading to save money (=not having to buy all books, but find some "somewhere else"). | 9 | 6.82% | |
I'm mainly converting to ePUB, it's the most open and versatile format. | 38 | 28.79% | |
I'm converting to whatever format I need for my momentary hardware of choice. | 39 | 29.55% | |
I try to avoid paying for eBooks, it's easy to find all my stuff online. | 2 | 1.52% | |
I don't mind paying for eBooks, it's relatively cheap anyway. | 48 | 36.36% | |
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11-10-2014, 10:27 AM | #31 |
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Perhaps you misunderstood me. I meant that of the people who DO sideload content to their devices, none of them have any more difficulty than others in doing so (especially not based on what device they have).
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11-10-2014, 10:34 AM | #32 | |
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This certainly applies to me. I've spent around £300 on ebooks so far this year, but I'm using a nook ST Glowlight I bought for around £70 some time ago. I look at the new Kindles, but I don't buy, even though the cost is a lot smaller than my annual spend on ebooks. |
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11-10-2014, 10:55 AM | #33 |
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I'm very confused because of the wording of the questions. For example if I see "I download my content for free from "somewhere else", maybe convert to the target format and sideload to my hardware of choice", I think of the freebies I get from Amazon and convert to epub. Does "somewhere else" mean pirated?
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11-10-2014, 10:59 AM | #34 | |
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11-10-2014, 11:02 AM | #35 |
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11-10-2014, 11:04 AM | #36 |
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I thought that I'd find the external SD slot on my Kobo H2O useful, but the reality is that I simply haven't needed it. The 2000-odd books that 4GB of storage permits are entirely sufficient for my needs.
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How common is non-encryption/watermarking DRM? I've occasionally heard it mentioned, but yet to even encounter it in the wild, let alone had to make a non-hypothetical decision about it. |
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11-10-2014, 11:33 AM | #41 |
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I chose "I don't care about sideloading", "I buy from the merchant of my choice, strip and sideload to my hardware of choice" and "I don't mind paying for ebooks." I was a little stumped about the second one, because for me those three items are independent and not related to each other, but I chose it anyway.
My first ebook reader was sideload only; no wi-fi, so I had to download all content and connect to the computer to copy to my reader. Now that I'm using all wi-fi devices, I pretty much just leave everything in the cloud. Every six months or so, I go through my email receipts and I download all of my purchases and import them into Calibre. I do use the tools on those books, but to be honest, most of the time if I want to actually *read* I book, I download it to my device from whatever vendor is holding it for me. I would like to someday have them all in Calibre, so that my library is in one place, but I haven't put the time into sorting those books yet. The last time I sideloaded content was when I downloaded books that I bought for my son from Amazon (his Kindle Touch is linked to my account) and sideloaded them to his Kindle Fire (linked to his dad's account). Originally, setting up his devices to separate accounts made sense, since his dad has more apps in his account than I do in mine, but I didn't take into account the fact that Amazon does not allow the Kindle app to have a separate login from the tablet itself. Last edited by sakura-panda; 11-10-2014 at 11:40 AM. |
11-10-2014, 11:34 AM | #42 |
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Wouldn't "somewhere else" included public domain sites like Project Gutenberg? There are plenty of free sites that don't have pirated books. Manybooks, Girl ebooks, etc.
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11-10-2014, 11:34 AM | #43 | |
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One very popular series of books that uses watermarking in the English-speaking world is J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. She sells these from her own site, and the books are watermarked. |
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a.) I didn't feel guilty, because I had paid for it. b.) I'd hope for some kind of quality, whereas content from the darknet can be "hit and miss". |
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