I find it puzzling that people are OK with allowing a mammoth, regularly hostile corporation know exactly what books they’re reading as well as the exact details of their reading habits. Everything is accessible to Amazon - when and how often you access a book, how fast you read and when you linger on or return to a page. I wonder when they’ll implement camera-based eye tracking so they know what word you’re on?
The same public libraries that vigorously defend the privacy of our reading lists are simultaneously fine outsourcing all ebook access to Amazon where there’s no expectation of privacy at all. Epubs at those libraries are now so well hidden they’re not even mentioned anymore and access is buried multiple levels deep in the mandatory Libby app.
I love the ease of access and convenience of ebooks, but paper books are becoming more and more appealing by comparison.
Amazon can’t see shit that me and mine read, but that’s cuz I liberated my Kindle books and now read/listen to all of my Kindle/audible books through audiobookshelf.
So glad I made that jump a few years ago
Cool, but don’t support Amazon at all.
This needs to be an open source script! I would love to use it to actually own my purchased books.
Just buy ebooks from sites that don’t fucking you over in the future. If you already have a kindle its annoying but pocketbooks and other eReaders are right there.
They’ll modify it soon enough. Amazon will respond to only one thing - everyone stops buying ebooks from Amazon.
Understood, but I “purchased” books over the years is like to keep as mine.
many ebooks from Amazon are drm free you can just download and pull them. or just pirate them and not worry about it
Not all hero’s wear capes.
