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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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572 points bookofjoe | 9 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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Fokamul[dead post] ◴[16 Oct 24 15:19 UTC] No.41860122[source]▶
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carlosjobim ◴[16 Oct 24 15:23 UTC] No.41860180[source]▶
I have read hundreds of books on my Kindle that I bought ages ago. It still works perfectly and battery life is still good. What's the problem?
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1. CodeWriter23 ◴[16 Oct 24 15:28 UTC] No.41860230[source]▶
When Amazon decides to cut you off, you’ll know. Example: bought Albums on iTunes over a decade ago. Can’t re-download. Not even for a nominal bandwidth fee.
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2. carlosjobim ◴[16 Oct 24 15:46 UTC] No.41860454[source]▶
If Amazon remotely nukes my device, I've still had it for many years working perfectly. So I'm not going to loose sleep.
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3. CodeWriter23 ◴[16 Oct 24 17:32 UTC] No.41861591[source]▶
Just all your notes
4. dartharva ◴[16 Oct 24 19:06 UTC] No.41862641[source]▶
You can sideload your own ebooks on Kindle devices.
5. freedomben ◴[17 Oct 24 00:46 UTC] No.41865363[source]▶
We have a pretty fundamental disagreement then on what we want from content we've purchased. If I'm buying it then I expect to have it forever. It really blows my mind to think that somebody wouldn't even be upset if some big corp suddenly stole all the content they've purchased over the years.
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6. carlosjobim ◴[17 Oct 24 11:32 UTC] No.41868596{3}[source]▶
I don't get my books from Amazon, how would they be able to access my computer and my backups?
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7. freedomben ◴[17 Oct 24 14:13 UTC] No.41869870{4}[source]▶
Ok then, you're probably fine, but you did reply to a comment that specifically said "from Amazon" so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume you meant you had bought them from Amazon.

> You don't really own anything from Amazon. Kindle is good as ashtray.

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8. carlosjobim ◴[17 Oct 24 15:11 UTC] No.41870401{5}[source]▶
Saying that the Kindle is as good as an ashtray is like saying cars are useless because we can travel by horse. It's ideologically motivated detachment from reality.
9. tanjtanjtanj ◴[17 Oct 24 15:56 UTC] No.41870850[source]▶
Why is that? I just downloaded a couple albums I bought from iTunes in 2008 as a test. Were they specific ones that were removed from iTunes for license issues? (Not that that’s a good excuse)