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Thriftbooks, baby B)

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I read a lot of military history; rzm.com

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Just don't connect your ereader to the internet. Before I switched, I stopped letting my Kindle reach the internet because every automatic update made the UI worse than it was before.

Either keep it permanently in offline mode (which you should anyways to save on battery power) or segment it out on your network if you need wifi for something local.

Load books locally via calibre and USB.

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I didn't even know calibre connected to the internet.

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I haven't messed with it in awhile but I recall either the main devs or a plugin testing wireless syncing. It would definitely be convenient but then you have to do some networking setup on the backend.

Edit: oh yeah calibre connects to the internet for ebook meta data and cover downloads.

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I rooted my $99 Kindle so I wouldn't have ads or spyware, best decision ever. Lets you do custom screensavers and run ePub readers.

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I actually tried to have this conversation with a librarian a decade ago. Her blank face and her words, "but kindle is great" proved she missed the point

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I have a couple hundred books in my library and on pdf

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What happened? Amazon going all Fahrenheit 451?

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Relevant article. (spiked-online.com)

Leave James Bond alone ‘Sensitivity readers’ must be stopped from sanitising literature.

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Kobo is working good for me.

Grab almost any book on irc.

No need for it to have access to the wifi.

I read way better with the dyslexia font.

Paper copies yo, not this digital shit that bit rots every time you open it or gets corrupted because the file system goes sideways.

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Back when I used to take the train to work I read a lot of books… No more train, now I crack one and it’s maybe a paragraph till I’m sleeping and I lost my page.

Context please outside of paranoia.

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Then people are worried about emp from it taking out the readers?

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If you need an explanation about Amazion and Joogle revising digital copies of books, you have a bigger problem.

So paranoia.

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lol just jewry

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They have been scanning pages and revising. I recently got NWO book. And some of the stuff in it was missing. Like the part with vaccines and viruses. But someone has the book posted online picture of pages no longer in the newer prints. They’re revisioning shit