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arctic-hands · 6 months

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Ugggh it was free but I had to download an adobe program just so I could download the book I legally paid for from google (also ugh) play just so I could put it on the ancient ass e-reader that'll get here soon. There's got to be an easier way to download the shit you've legally paid for without having to deal with proprietary bullshit, right? On top of all that, amazon (uggggggh) changed their DCRM this very year to something Calibre hasn't been able to crack, so all the books I legally bought from kindle can't be put on the e-reader at all, keeping me reliant on the app on my phone.

Kobo was created by Indigo Books but is now owned by Rakuten, so the Indigo company doesn't get anything if I buy e-books from kobo, right? I wanna say kobo and Barnes and noble/nook don't have bullshit like this for the books themselves, just their proprietary e-readers only allowing books from their services onto the devices themselves, which is why I opted not to get a kobo or nook in the first place

Anyway I hate this crap lol. Someone once stated that when you purchase an e-book (or any media, really) these days you don't own the book, you just rented out the privilege to read it, and that privilege can be revoked at any time. It's so fucking dumb. I don't hate technology I just hate how it evolved into such bullshit. It didn't have to be like this

#ebook #e book #the purchase of an ancient wifi-less e-reader was less a statement on cutting the streaming cord like I've been doing #because i genuinely would have liked the ability to use apps like libby and hoopla on it and hell put kindle and Google play on #it for convenience #but getting an e-ink e-reader was paramount for my eye strain and insomnia so i wouldn't be staring at a bluelight screen reading at night #especially since I'm getting back into reading Iron Widow which i bought on google play cause i was to broke to afford the physical book #my insomnia is still kicking my ass so I'm trying to reduce screentime even in the day #the tragedy is that smartphones are seemingly perfect because you can have all this technology in one device...#... at the cost of eye strain disrupted sleep and a lack of privacy and ownership over the media you bought #society if smartphones developed from e-ink technology and without corporate and government spyware: 🌈#also the ancient e-reader is a Sony pocket reader TRS-300 for the record #it was ten dollars. twenty with shipping. even a used and a few years old modern reader like an onyx boox or meebook was hundreds of dollars #so like

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