11-25-2020, 10:38 PM | #46 | |
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There’s plenty of ways you can opt-out of these nefarious practices, especially if you live in a GDPR country. If it doesn’t bother you - great! Live your life. It bothers me, so I choose to opt out. |
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11-25-2020, 11:37 PM | #47 | |
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But of course it's no skin off my nose what you want to do with your ereader. Just seems pretty weird to worry about someone knowing your reading preferences, when large corporations almost certainly already know far more about you. |
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11-26-2020, 05:59 AM | #48 | |
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And there is Guttenberg, Feedbooks, ... EDIT: Oops, I guess the MR library is a library. All though when I think "library" I think checkouts and returns. |
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11-26-2020, 06:09 AM | #49 |
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Piracy is what comes to mind when people say they want to bypass the registration. It's really no different properly registering as it is to buy eBooks. You have to give the same information. Kobo, Amazon, and others do not care that you've side loaded eBooks. So that's not an issue. Also, using the library to get eBooks also gives out your information. In fact, more then you have to give to register.
So given that the Reader companies do not care about your side loading and buying eBooks gives more information (you have to give payment details) and library books gives out more information as registering, what is the reason to not register? I know it's possible, but I think it's highly unlikely that someone is just going to read public domain/creative commons eBooks and never read any other. |
11-26-2020, 06:12 AM | #50 |
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And they have cable TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, or whatever and these companies gets their TV viewing habits.
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11-26-2020, 06:14 AM | #51 |
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11-26-2020, 07:44 AM | #52 |
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11-26-2020, 08:45 AM | #53 |
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11-26-2020, 09:41 AM | #54 | |
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11-26-2020, 09:44 AM | #55 | |
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11-26-2020, 10:11 AM | #56 | |
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Of course they could read public domain ebooks and fanfiction or similar, and the rest on paper. But coupled with not wanting to register their ereader, it smells a bit fishy, imho. |
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Another question is why by a Kobo Forma just for public domain/creative commons/fan fiction eBooks? |
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11-26-2020, 10:40 AM | #59 |
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My mom, the last time I checked her calibre library. I have bought one kindle book for her but otherwise every book was ethically sourced from places that do not ask her to create an account.
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