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[LUG] OT: *#@**#@ Kindle
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- Subject: [LUG] OT: *#@**#@ Kindle
- From: George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:42:17 +0100
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Just a rant to ease my feelings. The latest kindles are a nice bit of
hardware but what a *** rubbish piece of software they come with. I
believe it is based on the Linux kernel but Amazon have done everything
in their power to lock you into their buying system. And the most
frustrating thing is, I can't find any way round it. I have a lot of
Ebooks, some bought from Amazon, others from other places including a
lot of free books. I use Calibre and the first thing I do is strip out
the DRM. Easy to transfer books to the Kindle from Calibre and then the
problems start. It really hit me recently when my wife got a new Kindle
and I had to load it with a lot of books. This was our 5th kindle and
our Amazon account has a lot of history.
If you just put the books on it is a nightmare to find anything. So you
organise them into collections. Then the problems start because this
process is not easy. As part of the set up process you connect the
Kindle to your Amazon account. If you are connected to wifi then it will
download books you already have to the Kindle and organise them into
collections. Good so far. You then load lots of other books. Lets say
you are organising into author collections. You look for an author and
it isn't there so you create one. And it says you already have that
author in the cloud so you can't. So you look for a method to download
and there isn't one. So you fanny around for a while and it suddenly
appears. So you open it and go to "add books" and you plough through all
200 books you have loaded and add the ones you want. Then go to another
collection to add books and plough through the 200 books you have loaded
and add the ones you want. And so on. Are there any you have missed? Who
knows? There is no way of telling. No sensible, easy to use file manager.
So, lets disconnect from the Amazon account and use the reader in
isolation to stop Amazon messing with your head. Oh, look, all the books
have been removed from your kindle and there is no way you can continue
using it. In the end I ploughed on with Amazon's cack handed software
and loaded about 1000 books over the course of 3 days. There are
supposed to be ways of making Calibre do the organising but I haven't
been able to get it working in Linux. And Google isn't my friend in this
case.
Otherwise, not a bad lockdown.
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