Hacker News Reader

Comment by ashton314 | Hacker News Reader

What do you do now? I’ve been buying physical books off of Abe Books—not a bad thing at all—but I’d like to use my jailbroken kindle again because the form factor is so convenient.

View on HN

FYI: Abe is Amazon: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbeBooks>, citing <https://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/01/amazon-to-acquire-abeb...>.

Buy DRM free when you can. Not only is this convenient for you but will hopefully help nudge the market. When you can't, buy the book from one of the easily cracked sources (Kobo, Google, Adobe DRM).

Or you can save yourself the bother of removing DRM by buying the book from wherever and then downloading a copy from Anna's.

Not the guy but you can just buy your ebooks from someplace else and use calibre to convert/send them to your kindle.

Im kinda cheeky and use Amazons Send-to-Kindle service to send ebooks in epub format to my kindle via wifi

I do this as well and leave the site name in the filename where it was downloaded from if it was part of the filename originally.

I try to buy physical books, and make an effort to buy it elsewhere, with AMZN being the reluctant last resort if I truly can’t find it. I don’t have a specific go to place anymore.

Also, I reduced the buying pace - owning physical books takes up space, so the bar for getting something into the library is now much higher than before.

If you already bought them, just download them off anna's archive.

Use your local library?

I’m amazed to see so many comments focused on everything but libraries.

It’s a shift but I agree. I think we’re used to having instant access to what we want. Waiting 3 weeks on Libby is a change. I do think it’s been healthy and gives me something to look forward to!

Libraries are not great on in demand books, tech books, or erotica.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com