I am on my second kindle as like to read by the pool or in bed.
If I get a rare english client with a computer to repair, during my copy of data I take copies of any english books they may have on the computer (with permission), i then load them onto my kindle. Occasionally I get hew books or different to what I may normally read. Currently reading a few australien authors. Great system.
But this morning all my books had disappeared all 10,000 of them….. horreur as I had not made copies just loaded direct.
investigation on different site tell me amazon are updating the system and anything not bought direct and downloaded from them is deleted, part of the new features…..
Answer, airport mode, copy them to external disk as they are still physically on the device, clean that and reload with usb câble to linux computer, then reload.
But stay in airport mode.
Books all back and working
Ok I understand kindle wants you to buy direct but having paid for the device I consider its mine so want to be indépendant of their rules
The issue with ebooks is that you do not own your copy, just a license to read it. Everything not purchased from Amazon (in case of Kindle) is considered an illegal copy. This is very harsh, I know. For me, a reason to never get a Kindle reader.
That i understand and follow, but if I buy a book, once i have read it, I want to pass it on to someone else to get the pleasure from, and encourage them to pass on as well, everywhere we go hotels, by the beach, city centres there are boxes where you donate a book and select another, normally for free.
Ok I understand that the writer and publishing house get nothing
So what do you do, paper Backstreet or hard covers, when you go away how do you transport, books are heavy and take space
I don’t know the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem well enough, but I think this is clearly not allowed.
True, but this is for printed books. With your copy of a printed book, you can do whatever you want: read, give it away, burn it, etc.
In my village, there is such a library in a former phone booth. You can take books from there, bring them back, or even keep them if you like to, and dispose of your old books you want to give away. All for free.
Personally, I manage my ebooks (epub and pdf format) with Calibre. I own two readers, a Pocketbook and a Tolino Vision2. Both are rather old but still do their job.
Dont know either of these, i thought about a kobo but in the end went down the kindle, up to now been fine.
Yes phoneboxes are great for book exchanges, there are several around france think the bought a load from the uk as they are all red, but our village has build wood boxes in the shape of houses. Our own reception has a large stock but they tend to be either french or german, I cannot read either well enough.
I do occasionally buy Kindle books - but - I read them on the Kindle app on my iPad mini…
I used to have (still do - but don’t use it) a Kobo e-book reader…
I could “side-load” ebooks using Calibre (I used it as my library manager)… But - I was NEVER able to remove the DRM from Google or Kindle or Apple e-books to load them onto my Kobo… So if I wanted to read something with DRM on my Kobo I had to buy it on Rakuten Kobo bookstore (and they don’t have as extensive a catalog as Kindle).
So - I mostly buy e-books from Google and read on the Google Books app on my iPad mini… I also get DRM free e-books from various “sources” (e.g. Gutenberg) and upload the epub into my Google Books library…
The great thing about using an “app” - I can read my books on my iPad or my Android phone, or a web browser on a computer… I’m not locked down… and as long as the device is online - and open the book on my phone after reading it on my iPad - it remembers what page I was up to…
There’s one thing I kinda HATE about e-books - reading a book about travelling - it’s nearly impossible to toggle back and forth to a map (good thing about using my iPad - I can load a map image in Safari and task switch between my e-book reading app, and the map - easy peasy - can’t really do that with a dedicated reader like a Kobo).
