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The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

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101 points kozmonaut | 3 comments | 27 Sep 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
1. aftergibson ◴[27 Sep 25 09:02 UTC] No.45394253[source]▶
Just buy an old kindle. Mod it and get koreader running on it. Then put it in airplane mode and load books via USB from whatever source you like.

Its great hardware.

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2. goosedragons ◴[27 Sep 25 11:00 UTC] No.45394722[source]▶
Just buy a Kobo. You can get a new one, you don't have to jailbreak it to run Koreader, it already actually ePubs out of the box, they don't have as aggressive DRM either. And the hardware is good.
3. barnabee ◴[27 Sep 25 15:46 UTC] No.45396756[source]▶
My Onyx Poke 5 is better than every Kindle I’ve owned.

It’s super compact (great for travel), has a good screen, reads anything I’ve thrown at it, runs Android apps, and is simple to send files to over its (local) web interface.