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    2 months ago

    No, you could never buy books on Amazon, only rent them. Calibre with DeDRM plugin was a poor way to liberate them, given that formatting in libre formats was often worse than the original.

    I stopped doing that and ingnored the Kindle ecosystem in general. I tried a Kobe reader with .epub books from diverse sources but I mostly use tablets (LineageOS and GrapheneOS) to consume content these days. The reader apps are not that great there, sadly.

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      2 months ago

      I’d be pretty surprised if you couldn’t waydroid something decent without googleing up. Certainly moon reader or something should run without the store?

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        2 months ago

        I’m limiting myself to only open source applications on the tablets. Strictly nothing from Play Store or Aurora.

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          2 months ago

          When you call the shots, you get the outcomes. It’s honestly not a bad way to live. Best of luck to ya!

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      2 months ago

      I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.