• @amos@mander.xyz
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      1 month ago

      You could have made a better choice, I suppose. And some authors/editors do deserve the money.

      Pirating is not necessarily resisting. Are you taking money from authors who really really need it? Or are you taking money from rich CEOs who are worsening the environment, ruining future generations, slaving, etc?

      • @Yppm@lemy.lol
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        230 days ago

        Ya good point.

        Seems like I’m doing it backwards lol

        Giving money to Amazon for the hardware and then stealing from the authors.

        I should do some more research before buying my next ebook reader.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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        130 days ago

        Whenever you want to buy a book, pirate it, then donate the amount equivalent to the purchase price directly to the authors. Bypass the middleman.

      • @Yppm@lemy.lol
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        330 days ago

        Using calibre to just upload books directly.

        I’ll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.

        • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          130 days ago

          Yeah, Calibre is the way to go. KoReader is basically custom built for Calibre, and includes things (missing from the base kindle firmware) like native metadata retrieval.