4/8/2026 at 1:36:41 PM
by beardyw
4/8/2026 at 4:48:24 PM
This closes the DRM hole in Kindle. The newer Kindle DRM formats have been robust, but the old DX reader AWZ format was hacked ages ago. Anyone with an old device could download their books in the old DRM, and strip it with DeDRM. But those downloads will end in May.If you have a decent library at Kindle and want a DRM-free copy, I'd download it now.
by michael1999
4/8/2026 at 4:02:50 PM
The Kindle hardware is great, but the software and ecosystem are just crap, and Amazon is making it shittier every year.I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]).
I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens.
by tacker2000
4/8/2026 at 6:25:57 PM
How is the Boox Note 7 in regards to reading PDFs?by hibiscus4156
4/8/2026 at 7:53:02 PM
Bought a Kindle because it was the cheapest ereader I could find. Amazon heavily subsidised it.Joke's on them I've never bought a book from the Amazon store! It takes a few minutes to drop files on it via USB.
by TitaRusell
4/8/2026 at 2:12:48 PM
Meanwhile Kobo is still shipping firmware updates to devices from the same time period...And even the ePub readers that have been left behind can still work with new books.
by chocochunks
4/8/2026 at 3:39:45 PM
Also, pretty much every Kobo can run KOReader without any need for a jailbreak or similar.by deng
4/8/2026 at 3:21:46 PM
This is why having the actual pdf is better, if you can't have it offline you don't own it digitally, if you can't give it to another person or copy it or modify it then you don't own it to it simply attached to your account even with offline access.by mainecoder
4/8/2026 at 3:58:08 PM
Would be cool to be able to search this, I'm not a LOTR expert. But I wanted to search for the Valar island as i have no way of knowing where it is. The islands I clicked on didn't seem to be it.by CGMthrowaway
4/8/2026 at 6:14:59 PM
Uhhh, I guess the map is a little hard to use and you seemed too have taken a wrong turn. This is an ebook thread, not the LOTR map thread.by R_D_Olivaw