They can have the old fiction books that I'll never read again. Digital is great in that way. No need to store the physical item. Non fiction always gets a hard copy in my library.
I have ended my amazon prime membership and my whole library on Kindle was initially deleted. I was however able to redownload the items I had purchased, at least for now.
Alternatively, you can save your books directly to your Books app, and read them from your phone, and also get Calibri for your desktop and read from there. Get (legally) free books from projectgutenburg and other great sites now before they get shut down.
They forgot about LimeWire and Napster. They think we won't hand those old programs to Gen Z and let them do that "with a steel chair" thing they're so good at.
Equating kindle with digital is misleading at best.
Pirate the books after you've bought them on kindle / physical or whatever. It's preservation, and also not wilfully surrendering a monopoly to amazon through ignorance. Digital is good, actually.
Look for an an independent e-reader. Buy DRM free Look for sites that sell epub or pdf versions of the books. 😊 Here are some non broligarchy options for bookies.
StoryGraph to keep track of your books
Libro - work with local bookshops
E-books.com
Bookshop for new books
Thriftbooks for used books
😊
And for anything you don't care about acquiring physically or permanently, check out https://libbyapp.com
You need a library card, and an internet connection, but it's a phenomenal app for which your taxes pay.
Engage with your library and a decent UI instead of the up-jumped bookstore website guy.
This is a disturbing prediction, but sadly, at this point, nothing surprises me anymore. We have read that in 1930s in Germany they were burning the books.
I cannot go back to paper. The ease of being able to get new books wherever I am and being able to carry a whole library with me is just too much of an improvement.
I will look into more open ways of getting and storing epubs.
after the election, the 1st thing I did was go thru my books & complete collections that I knew would either be banned or very difficult to find. It is an ongoing process.
But you'd be stealing from authors who already make shit in royalties. The editorial houses won't be the ones at a loss, it'll be the artsits who you enjoy... Why not the library instead?
I have been telling everyone I know this. And I fear it won’t just be the ones listed banned so far, I have a suspicion that it’s going to be quite a few of the recent bestsellers based on its spicy content too.
I guess for people who still like/need to us ebooks for disability reasons, the main thing is just not using a Kindle. I don’t know B&N’s policy, but Kobos and Boox seem to be a good option! Side loading with Calibre or Libby
I've always had this mentality...I have never been able to trust that the books I love and the books I need will always be available unless I have them to hold in my hand. I read fluff on my kindle, I buy physical copies of the books that live in my heart and that seem like they could save a life.
My eyes are bad. I rely on the customizable font on a kindle so every book I read has the same font. Would love to read physical books if I could easily
Start? Wait people stopped? I buy the hard copy over the digital version of any media type every time because they can remove access to your digital copy. I never trusted any of the companies on this.
That’s exactly what I do with the kindle ereader. I also happen to have already converted most of my kindle books to pdfs stored on an old computer in a notes app.
I’ve always been such an advocate for physical copies!! I think it’s important if someone has the space and ability, especially during trying times like this. 🖤
Right? The original Norman Domesday Book is still readable, its data still accessible almost 1000 years later. No charging cable, proprietary software or internet required to use it.
I love this. It feels a little unhinged like true crime and I'm here for it. Haha. Every time I tell people about shelf trophies they give me side eye.
Actually, I'm Downloading ebooks left and right, onto my hard disks and optical media...
probably have 7-8 TB...on hard disks...and 15 CD wallets.
copy to the phone quickly and easily.
long as I have power, I have data
And I have Solar Cells...So as long as the sun is shining, I have power.
Just remember, Trump and co are trying to stop renewable power. His efforts to put the sun out and replace it with oil burning lamps won't work, but who knows how much he'll screw up in the attempt.
Both of them have advantages; you can't carry or conceal hundreds of books on a chip the size of your fingernail unless it's digital copies. You don't need electricity or a device for paper books, but they're bulky and harder to smuggle.
I never stopped buying physical copies for just that reason. That and dead tree editions can be read anywhere, at any time, and do not need charging cables or an internet connection.
I think it will be good for us to leave the kindles behind and go back to spending time around people at actual bookstores. I’m actually thinking back to how much I enjoyed just spending time at local bookstores. I’m done with Amazon anyway, Bezos showed us his colors already. He is FOR this chaos.
I love the smell and feel of books. I, too, enjoyed browsing when we had all those small 📚 bookstores. Recently heard that Barnes & Nobles is into creating small bookstore atmospheres.
I feel the same way about writing. Using a typewriter or a pen prevents the oligarchs from training their sinister machines on your creativity...at least until you are ready to share it with the world. Then you're fucked.
I saw instructions on Google. There are always workarounds if Amazon authentications are needed, but u may have to do that preemptively when u download in the first place. Just google it since there may not be videos yet
My daughter wrote her list in November. She got some for Christmas and some are set aside for her birthday. There are only a handful we haven't gotten for her yet.....my list is more extensive...🤦♀️
Now is the time to support our local libraries.
Special gratitude to https://LibbyApp.com
Connects you with your library for books, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, ALL FREE. 📚
At the moment I've been buying lots of my favourite albums on vinyl and cds. It's been so great interacting with physical media again. Sitting and listening to an album from beginning to end and reading the linear notes. It's awesome.
Me and my family were just discussing this. Songs can be removed from history now that almost everything is digital. I’m on the hunt for a cassette player after finding a box full in the loft! Very exciting stuff!
I had boxes of cds and vinyls stored away for the last 20 years, I've bought a fancy new turntable and cd player and speakers and I'm just falling in love with all the memories contained in these amazing things. Been buying some new vinyl too. Really good to connect with music again.
Expat living in a foreign language, and mainly housebound now, I have hundreds of physical books, and now thousands of Kindle and ebooks. Not practical or affordable to buy the physical copies. Bot thanks for the heads-up. I buy directly from authors when possible.
Thrift stores, garage sales, & Little Free Libraries! I only buy used books now but I live in a rural (aka white/conservative) area, so I wish the selection was a little better, but that’s what Thriftbooks is for.
This was today’s haul, I’m trying to decide which one to read first.
I love Play books because it turns and text into a amber color on a black background for easy reading at night when I cannot sleep. I hate the Kindle app. I convert one to the other. The tech is out there and I bought the books. I do not do that with rentals.
This is why as much as I would love a kindle, I like physical copies more. Including video games. They can’t take away my physical copies but they sure can take away digital copies.
Yes! I’ve been saying this since November. Used or New just get those books. Store them safely. Print any historical works if they aren’t available anywhere else. Donate and support libraries if you can. Indie authors and bookstores too. 💙📚 #booksky
Start with "jailbird" by Kurt Vonnegut.
It is eerily similar to the times and problems were facing now and may instill some sense of hope or at least an idea of why this is happening.
Powerbrokers have tools to control the world.
People like trump are one of them.
No problem! I would also add A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, I already had that one. A copy of the Constitution is a good idea too 😁
My books are far from revolutionary, but when you buy my e-books from my website you get non-DRM-protected downloadable files which you can put on your Kindle or Apple or PC and are yours forever 🥰
I have too many books, and have moved so many times that now the wieght of a book is something I consider when I buy a book. I have distilled and gifted and the gems remain.
as a lawyer, i must insist that no one ever engage in piracy especially for ebooks
what makes it so insidious is they're so small - you theoretically can just go out and grab like EVERY BOOK EVER and have them on a tiny hard drive that you could just spread everywhere so dont do it
Physical books are great but who has room for thousands of them. Support public digital libraries such as https://annas-archive.org/ which has 40 million ebooks.
No, authors don't get paid beyond the sale of the original book. Authors should get paid but most don't get much of anything. Amazon prints new books and sells them as used in fake bookstores so they don't have to pay royalties. Public physical libraries pay more for a book but keep loaning it.
What do you mean, "sale of the original book"? Libraries purchase ebook licenses through specific channels, and authors DO get royalties. I'm not saying this website is pirating, but they do have lots of titles with DIY versions of the pro covers, which raises red flags for me.
They can’t take downloaded books away. There’s a way to download your content from Amazon, wipe the drm using calibre and store them on a local drive. I plan on doing this with all my Amazon content. I use a kobo ereader too just because I don’t like putting my eggs all in one basket 😁
I'm with most of the people that already answered. Old and bad eyes and fingers. I download them and they are safe on my offline storage device. I can make the print bigger and moving is easier. That said between my wife and myself we still have at least ten book cases and many boxes in the garage.
What I do is make or buy a drm free version of books and use a Calibre server to handle sharing them to my phone and tablet. If you do that, then they can't be taken away. This is easy to setup.
But don't buy digital books on Amazon. Bezos isn't the worst, but he's quite bad.
https://amazon.com/dp/B0CSFS2LZ7
When Ian, a teenage runaway, seeks shelter in the basement of a historic church, he meets the spirit of April, a recently deceased young woman his age. Together they search for her missing sister . . . and find a miracle.
If you have an old device, you can download the kindle app and all the books then put it on airplane mode. Physical is better, but there are ways to keep them safe.
I love the smell of books new and old. Have kept all textbooks since undergrad through my science career. It makes me happy to re-read them and develop new perspectives.
Some folks might not be able to replace all their ebooks for paperbacks, so keep in mind you can also purchase ebooks directly from many authors now! Then it's yours to read forever (and you can use it on whichever devices you please).
I use kindle and audible to read because I have a lot of trouble reading physical books. I’d love to buy physical books but asking a non-linguist to read a linguistics book out aloud to me is more funny than useful unfortunately 👋☕️
I followed that impulse and spent a couple hundred on thrifted books. I don’t like all the new Ts and Cs I’m being asked to approve on digital platforms. Give me my books, histories, experiences, and fictional world building. Adding a few more banned books with my next paycheck.
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Shops. #BuyMoreBooks #BorrowBooks
Seriously it's mostly Americans who enthusiastically buy an Apple or Kindle attached to one marketplace.
Pirate the books after you've bought them on kindle / physical or whatever. It's preservation, and also not wilfully surrendering a monopoly to amazon through ignorance. Digital is good, actually.
StoryGraph to keep track of your books
Libro - work with local bookshops
E-books.com
Bookshop for new books
Thriftbooks for used books
😊
You need a library card, and an internet connection, but it's a phenomenal app for which your taxes pay.
Engage with your library and a decent UI instead of the up-jumped bookstore website guy.
I will look into more open ways of getting and storing epubs.
fuck.
https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Right?
probably have 7-8 TB...on hard disks...and 15 CD wallets.
copy to the phone quickly and easily.
long as I have power, I have data
And I have Solar Cells...So as long as the sun is shining, I have power.
So glad I got my solar wall from Tesla before all the nonsense.
Stripping the DRM is illegal in the US, so don't search for Calibre and the DeDRM plugin. That would be naughty.
(That, or given that it's copyright infringement either way just download a DRM free copy; you paid the author.)
That said, maybe buy a copy of Fahrenheit 451...
But you're completely right, B&N is already shadow banning books at stores where customers might be "offended"
What is your name darling?
Special gratitude to https://LibbyApp.com
Connects you with your library for books, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, ALL FREE. 📚
ive been warning people since streaming services began that digital will dissapear at the whim of oligarchs or despots
burning books and libraries is an old practice by authoritarians to keep people uninformed
Rather than paying a premium for heavy physical objects (not that that’s a totally bad thing) just export your collection to a flash drive.
This was today’s haul, I’m trying to decide which one to read first.
I love Play books because it turns and text into a amber color on a black background for easy reading at night when I cannot sleep. I hate the Kindle app. I convert one to the other. The tech is out there and I bought the books. I do not do that with rentals.
It is eerily similar to the times and problems were facing now and may instill some sense of hope or at least an idea of why this is happening.
Powerbrokers have tools to control the world.
People like trump are one of them.
Let me see if I can drop screen shots of my purchase. 😊
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what makes it so insidious is they're so small - you theoretically can just go out and grab like EVERY BOOK EVER and have them on a tiny hard drive that you could just spread everywhere so dont do it
I *can* put more in now, but damned if I'm not furious and resentful at the need. And I'll still run out of space eventually.
https://youtu.be/31M9WcO2INs?si=S9gOT20eLIqXPi3N
But don't buy digital books on Amazon. Bezos isn't the worst, but he's quite bad.
With Kindle it's a hit and miss.
When Ian, a teenage runaway, seeks shelter in the basement of a historic church, he meets the spirit of April, a recently deceased young woman his age. Together they search for her missing sister . . . and find a miracle.
Buy banned books. 📚