You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer
www.nbcnews.com

This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.

However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don’t own it like a physical book.

There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of “1984” was one such title).

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon’s terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.

Here are the terms of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.

  • @madcaesar
    15•3 months ago

    Kobo and epub only. Anything else, you don’t own and you shouldn’t pay for it.

    • lastweakness
      2•3 months ago

      Technically, we’re one update away from Kobo taking our device away too. I do love my KOReader on my Clara 2E though

      • @madcaesar
        6•3 months ago

        Doesn’t matter. All my books are epub. If kobo starts eating dick, I go somewhere else.

      • @barsquid
        1•3 months ago

        I just want a nice eReader that I can put something like Alpine on.