Damn, that color one looks very nice!
The color ones have lower resolution screens and less contrast+brightness than black and white. If you read comics it’s a big step up, but if you read mostly black and white text, it’s a downgrade.
Wait, you guys were buying books from Amazon?
Yeah, some of us made that miskate years ago. I can transfer mp3 just fine, why can’t I transfer a book file too? Lots of people entire book libraries are being held hostage by Amazon.
DRM ripping was a pain, I used some sketch program that had only worked with a specific old version of Kindle for PC to turn all my books into ebubs.
I love my kindle, but not buying books from Amazon anymore and next ereader won’t be kindle.
Fun unrelated fact, kindle unlimited books could also be downloaded for USB transfer.
Yeah it is strange. I have bought mp3s on Amazon and downloaded the DRM free mp3 to listen to on my preferred player of choice. But, why is the stance on books different?
Then use the library for the rest of the series if needed. :-).
Put it on airplane mode the day I bought it. Calibre is godsent
Good luck doing that to my 2012 5th gen Kindle that’s been off the update schedule for an eternity.
The title is misleading, they’re removing the ability to download and transfer from the Amazon side
So i won’t be able to download my ebooks from amazon.com to my PC, right?
Correct. If you do it now, there’s a notice about this feature going away.
Oh, good. I was thinking about buying one but I guess I won’t anymore.
So no download from their website?
The discontinuation does not eliminate the ability to drag and drop files onto a Kindle; it simply removes a method that facilitated piracy by transferring older retail book formats via USB.
Err, what? So it’s only going to block certain file types?
I got a second hand 2011 model for free. I leave it in airplane mode and copy the books over via USB after converting them with calibre. I would not buy an amazon e-reader in the future. Simply because they are a shitty company.
It’s a streaming service for books at that point.
