I buy ebooks largely out of convenience. I’ll be laying in bed and want to continue the The Witcher. There are plenty of pirated copies of this but I’m not going to trouble myself so I just buy this thing I’ll spend weeks falling asleep in front of.
Occasionally I’ll try to get something from the library but it has a seven week waiting time on it. Forget it. I buy that then also.
Sometimes I want to remove the DRM from something, I buy a fair amount of ebooks I should be allowed to make this call.
In the past I’ve used caliber to do this.
Unfortunately the DeDRM plugin is broken on Catalina. As far as I can tell you have to boot macOS into safe mode and disable SIP to get it working.
The eBook market kinda sucks. Not every book is available, for example a friend and I wanted to read Inca Gold as sort of a joke together. He bought the book used in hardcover, this particular novel is not available in the Kindle Store. I clicked the notify publisher they should publish this as an ebook link then I found a copy floating around on the web.
The other thing is pricing. eBooks cost much more than regular books and I can not understand why except because it is convenient. Frankly the device is convenient. Not a lot about the systems that support ebooks feels convenient.
Even supporting services like Goodreads feel clunky and stale at this point.
I largely blame Amazon for half hearted support of kindle. Their flagship device has a micro usb on it.
Occasionally I’ll try to get something from the library but it has a seven week waiting time on it. Forget it. I buy that then also.
Sometimes I want to remove the DRM from something, I buy a fair amount of ebooks I should be allowed to make this call.
In the past I’ve used caliber to do this.
Unfortunately the DeDRM plugin is broken on Catalina. As far as I can tell you have to boot macOS into safe mode and disable SIP to get it working.
The eBook market kinda sucks. Not every book is available, for example a friend and I wanted to read Inca Gold as sort of a joke together. He bought the book used in hardcover, this particular novel is not available in the Kindle Store. I clicked the notify publisher they should publish this as an ebook link then I found a copy floating around on the web.
The other thing is pricing. eBooks cost much more than regular books and I can not understand why except because it is convenient. Frankly the device is convenient. Not a lot about the systems that support ebooks feels convenient.
Even supporting services like Goodreads feel clunky and stale at this point.
I largely blame Amazon for half hearted support of kindle. Their flagship device has a micro usb on it.