• Yppm
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    4 days ago

    I bought a Kindle so I can pirate all my books. Am I resisting?

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      4 days 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?

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        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.

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        4 days ago

        Using calibre to just upload books directly.

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

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          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.