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F**k Amazon, part 2 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite that I love. Lately it has become very sluggish but still works and I have only bought books for it at Amazon. I'd love to correct that discrepancy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

BAEN sells eBooks directly.
Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.

When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.

Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.

As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've done Libby with the library but I read so slowly that they take it away before I'm done.

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Oh, yes. I'm most cases, really old books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've found the quality on Gutenberg varies massively - since an epub is basically a zipped html file, I've had plenty that are just barely-converted text files, with problems like incorrect character encoding and that everything's one big chapter.

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