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07-30-2024, 08:20 PM | #16 | |
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If you wanted to go with Amazon and don't mind registering an Amazon Scribe, you could use email to send epubs to a Scribe. And just a friendly reminder, help with getting pirated material is verboten is this forum. |
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07-30-2024, 09:15 PM | #18 |
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And how about this...
Download an epub to your iPhone. Plug a cable from your iPhone to Kobo Use the files app on the iPhone to transfer the epub to your kobo. I just tried this with an iPhone 15 and a Clara 2e, and it worked. Hopefully there are no database issues from just unplugging the cable. |
07-30-2024, 09:22 PM | #19 |
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The iPhone doesn't have an eject/unmount option?
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07-31-2024, 12:55 AM | #20 |
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07-31-2024, 04:41 AM | #21 |
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Yes actually I didn't think about that. I can send it via Wi-Fi to the Google Drive, I'd actually prefer to. Have an e-reader that doesn't have Bluetooth, so my option should be more than
With this being considered, based our requirements would you still go for the kobo elipsa 2 m fee se? |
07-31-2024, 06:10 AM | #22 |
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My Elipsa is gathering dust. I bought the Sage 8" a few weeks later (I already had a Libra 7" before the Elipsa). I now mostly use the Sage to read. It's actually got more pixels than an Elipsa.
If something is PDF too detailed or shaded for the Sage, it's often no use on the Elipsa either and is read on the TCL Nxtpaper 11 (10.9″ full colour almost eink quality in mono, matt screen). I also ditched the 5" and 4.7" eink for a Nxtpaper 40 phone. Almost all my reading is on the Kobo Sage. |
07-31-2024, 06:12 AM | #23 |
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Note that Google Drive is used for AI training, so may be a violation of copyright to use it for copyright works.
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07-31-2024, 06:28 AM | #24 |
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The problem is that such a basic Reader does not exist at 10". You just have to take what you get and ignore any features you don't want.
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07-31-2024, 09:34 AM | #25 |
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07-31-2024, 12:04 PM | #26 |
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It is copyright violation if you upload to a Sharing Site. Admittedly the public can't directly access your content, they have to query the search engine dressed as a chat bot that doesn't even tell you the source (the LLM).
Dropbox is the same now. And yes, publishers are going after the companies scraping all this content. Their current T&C make a mockery of their claims of privacy and security. Yes, secured from the public, but they are "ripping off" the content. Paper books years ago had a clause about machine storage, but Google "won" that dishonestly in the USA courts regarding scanning, and that was wrong and shouldn't apply elsewhere. These big companies think they are beyond the law. Ongoing cases variously in USA and EU and UK vs Alphabet/Google, X-Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon (one in USA about recalling illegal and unsafe goods from their marketplace). Criminal, regulatory and civil cases are all ongoing. New stories every week https://www.theregister.com/ Likely it's now only truly legal to use DropBox or Google Drive for stuff you own the rights on or PD content. |
07-31-2024, 12:08 PM | #27 | |
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As to copyright violation, it's a copyright violation to remove the DRM and keep a copy in Calibre in the first place, as you're making an unauthorized copy. And removing the DRM is illegal in the EU. Last edited by Sirtel; 07-31-2024 at 12:12 PM. |
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07-31-2024, 12:28 PM | #28 |
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No, clue in name. DRM removal might contravene something, but not copyright.
Deliberately sharing copies is what violates copyright. Also multiple personal copies of a copyright digital work that are not made public doesn't violate copyright. That's been legally established. |
07-31-2024, 12:33 PM | #29 |
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If it's illegal to put a copyright eBook that you bought on Google Drive, then it's also illegal to use Send to Kindle to send a copyright eBook that you did not purchase from Amazon.
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07-31-2024, 12:34 PM | #30 | |
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However it's not a backup as the entirety of Dropbox or of Google Drive could be geoblocked by law, or turned off. It's a convenient service that through thoughtless greed, the operator is making illegal (civil law not criminal law). Note to Google, Dropbox etc, criminla violations have fixed maximum tarrifs. Civil infractions have no limit to penalty. The companies touting LLM AI have been really stupid. |
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