Yes, I have the previous generation paperwhite. I love it. I just keep the radio off except to download or purchase new books. I periodically use calibre to extract the books I purchase and strip the drm. My calibre library is in ~/Dropbox/Library/. That way everything is automatically synced to one of my macs which has an always attached time machine backup. Said backup is rotated with another drive in my safe deposit box every month or more often if I'm working on stuff I don't want to lose.
I still use a Kindle. Convenience trumps that kind of theoretical concern. If a book was wiped by Amazon I'm sure I'd be able to find a pirate copy, but it would take faff.
In this case Kindle users who buy their books from Amazon shouldn't be affected by this Adobe format change. Amazon decided (smartly in this case) to keep the keys to their own walled garden.
As to your other question, I still use a Kindle. I buy books from various places, but I always put it in Calibre and create a non-DRMed mobi file from the DRMed version. I would not buy a book where I could not strip the DRM.
At least with my kindle, only the books that I bought via amazon and did not liberate from DRM are affected, so the risk is fairly low that it will nuke something really important.
I also use CM, who are very good at reversing google's anti-privacy changes (personally, I think they should fork android entirely, but that's another conversation).
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Does anyone even still use a Kindle?
I wouldn't feel comfortable using a device that's contents can be remotely and silently memory-holed at any time.
Does anyone even still use a Kindle?
Only pretty much everyone I know who buys e-books. For them Kindle is synonymous with e-book reader.
The good thing about Kindle is that everything you buy from the Amazon-store can easily and almost automatically have its DRM stripped.
That's not true (or at least not near as seamless) for any other sort of DRMed e-book solution I've seen.
Yes, I have the previous generation paperwhite. I love it. I just keep the radio off except to download or purchase new books. I periodically use calibre to extract the books I purchase and strip the drm. My calibre library is in ~/Dropbox/Library/. That way everything is automatically synced to one of my macs which has an always attached time machine backup. Said backup is rotated with another drive in my safe deposit box every month or more often if I'm working on stuff I don't want to lose.
I still use a Kindle. Convenience trumps that kind of theoretical concern. If a book was wiped by Amazon I'm sure I'd be able to find a pirate copy, but it would take faff.
In this case Kindle users who buy their books from Amazon shouldn't be affected by this Adobe format change. Amazon decided (smartly in this case) to keep the keys to their own walled garden.
As to your other question, I still use a Kindle. I buy books from various places, but I always put it in Calibre and create a non-DRMed mobi file from the DRMed version. I would not buy a book where I could not strip the DRM.
Do you use any kind of smartphone?
At least with my kindle, only the books that I bought via amazon and did not liberate from DRM are affected, so the risk is fairly low that it will nuke something really important.
Sure. I have daily Titanium Backup runs going offsite. Not even google/CM can touch those.
Well, since they own the OS underneath they can nuke any of your apps and prevent reinstall. Enjoy your backuped version of the app.
Nope, I can disable the signature enforcement.
I also use CM, who are very good at reversing google's anti-privacy changes (personally, I think they should fork android entirely, but that's another conversation).