Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault

from a few years back, didn't see it upthread - basically on the disruption of ~teh book~ by ~teh ebook~, w/ lots of industry observations

There is a new version of Kindle for pc that it automatically updates to on a purchase and turns the AZW files into a format that calibre doesn't recognise. I solved it by downloading the older 1.17 version here:https://s3.amazonaws.com/kindleforpc/44170/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe and deleting the AZW file and getting amazon to re-send it. It might just be a temp solution if they stop supporting 1.17 though.

(that reminds me, MacBook at work and new laptop at home means I don't have a working Kindle for PC setup. Might be the end of the Kindle daily deals for me)

(Um, does wine work?)

Am I the only dummy who pays for e-books

I pay. Path of least resistance.

same

i pay when forced to

Not to mention the. . . ethical thing?

My post was about breaking the DRM on an e-book I have bought, people. Although I will admit to many crimes, but I can't always afford to buy stuff. Actually fuck ethics.

I can't always afford to buy stuff but i draw the line at stealing to get it. When it comes to copyrighted books. Office supplies? Guilty. Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story.

congrats

my children have to read

For me the drm removal thing is for getting *bought* Kindle books into a format I can use on non-kindle devices, there's no stealing or distribution going on here.

My reading is probably 50/50 things bought in Amazon sales and public domain Victorian novels from Gutenberg.

The very same reason myself, when I buy an e-book I think it is totally unreasonable for it to be tethered to one device/format.

There's so much pre-1922 and other public domain/creative commons licence stuff out there, that I haven't found need to buy more than 3-4 Kindle books. Generally, I prefer the cheap used hardback for non-travel books.

Yeah, i always break the DRM on stuff i buy, so can read on ipad without amazon monitoring/monetising my reading, and so can keep book if amazon deletes or changes it. Had to do the same thing as calzino and get an old version of the kindle software. You need go tell it to not check for updates, too, otherwise it keeps updating itself to the new calibre-frustrating version.

Anyone else can't watch certain youtube videos on their kindle? It's been like this for months and I fucking hate it, none of the directions to fix it seem to work.

"Also a feed tube pusher for a cuisinart but that's another story."

yes but I think this is a story that needs to be told so we can understand the depths of your criminal malice

I pay for some e-books but I'm honestly using it mostly to read shit that is out of print or otherwise unavailable (like loads of dr who target novelizations etc; I'm not going to go pay $400 for Lungbarrow on the second hand market). most of them are formatted pretty shittily.

Man, Lungburrow shouldn't be read at any price

I read it a couple of months ago (via OCR on Kindle) and it's kinda fun. Approximately 100x better than Cat's Cradle.

the vonnegut book? are you insane?

Also, a question: why in the world doesn't amazon make digital versions free when you buy a hardcopy?

Books with multiple translations are a fucking nightmare to buy on the Kindle store - they just get listed together as different versions so the cheapest that pops up first is some badly formatted public domain shit.

translations editions of any kind are a fucking nightmare to buy on the Kindle store - they just get listed together as different versions so the cheapest that pops up first is some badly formatted public domain shit.

p. true of any kind of book with a complicated publication history, kindle or no - amazon's catalog management is really garbage for such a ~cutting edge~ company

It isn't right that you get free mp3 downloads with physical music purchases and these rapacious fucks are charging twice for a book.

xxp otm, Cat's Cradle is classic.

Just to defend sic here, pretty sure he's talking about

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/9/9f/NA005_timescrucible.jpg

not
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/CatsCradle%281963%29.jpg/220px-CatsCradle%281963%29.jpg

why in the world doesn't amazon make digital versions free when you buy a hardcopy?

This. Been driving me nuts. I still fetishize paper copies and like to have certain books on a shelf, ready to be rediscovered - and yet I do most of my reading on a kindle in the dark so as not to wake up my wife. Why can't I have both

Re: why not physical + digital packages for books, this link is from Reddit, but has a lot of enlightening input from people who work for publishers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1xtpee/why_dont_publishers_include_a_free_digital_copy/#bottom-comments

I usually, er, "source" a MOBI file online if I've bought a book and send it to my phone and Kindle. (It's easier to get away with reading at work that way.) (Also I can use my Kindle version to carry on reading in the dark when my partner's asleep.)

It's obvs v. difficult to source stuff if it's not popular lit, though.

http://bookos-z1.org/?signAll=1

this is an excellent dd source for back-up mobis/epubs etc

I usually end up buying a digital copy if it's a favorite book and I know I'll read it more than a couple times... it's not like I haven't bought a lot of my favorite albums four or five times. Of course this is usually after I've read a pirated digital copy and established the publisher didn't do a shitty OCR job and include jpegs of the book illustrations that are like 3MB each.

is there any reason not to upgrade windows calibre to v. 3.3?

just started running, for some reason (since i just got it), 2.85.1.

I might be behind the times here, but I thought all versions of Calibre beyond 1.17 don't let you strip DRM from Amazon purchases.

That is the Kindle for PC app version that introduces better drm

ah yeah, getting it all mixed up!

I'm on Calibre 3.1.1 and have no problems

Me too, but I have problems. Not with Calibre, just in general.

bit of a scare earlier when my kindle-for-pc auto-updated to the new version with the default new amz format. the last 4 books i'd bought hadn't been converted for my kobo. but i just reinstalled 1.17 and quickly used that before it had a chance to re-update (and turned off the update option).

(i only boot into windows once every couple of months, mainly to do exactly this)

I hope the update option stays off and behaves itself when I make a purchase later this month.

I don't know if it has filled my computer with trojans + spyware, but I tried the 14 day trial free version of Epubor DRM Removal for a protected epub that calibre couldn't deal with and it worked perfectly.

Did you use the Apprentice Alf plugins in Calibre? They usually work for stripping DRM. Does Epubor do the same thing?

The plugins on Calibre didn't work on this particular ebook file, but I just dragged and dropped it into Epubor and instantly it created a DRM free version.

it's using stock images for its 'customer' photos. but i'm not sure if that's enough not to trust it.

http://www.nataliantonovich.com/photography/ln/eng/photostock-image/10846?d0=photostock&d1=0a07a802_9756_4b79_9173_057daaedfa5f&renderAction=original

spent a couple of hours last night trying to get adobe digital editions installed because when i synced the kobo the other day it updated some epubs and i was curious about what it had changed. no joy. it wouldn't let me authorise the computer, wouldn't let me unauthorise the computer.

tried it again this morning and it worked first time. there was chatter on the web about their auth server having problems.

anyway, what they'd changed in the one epub, i think, was to make the cover image shitty. it's 1/5th the file size of the original and it shows.

amazon daily deals have been rocking it recently, have bought 5 in the last fortnight.

Like what?

Oh, “fortnight.” You must be Britishes. Never mind

yeah we say two sennights

Lol.