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Google (Playstore Books) and Amazon also allow publishers to specify DRM-free, except the Amazon KFX (default for apps and for Kindle direct downloads) is always encrypted.
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Not every country has local libraries where you can borrow ebooks and read them on your eink reader. My country doesn't, for example. There are plenty of people out there who don't live in the US and Western Europe.
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Yeah, I left out Amazon because of their formats and Google Books because I haven't used them.
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Their regular DRM is such a pain to defeat that it scared me away from ever buying ebooks from B&N. Which is a pity, because I think the Nooks are good devices, and I patronize their brick-and-mortar stores regularly.
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One of the newer Kobo firmwares also has a sideload mode which doesn't require an account.
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(An FWIW, i have Google Books on an iPad as well as on Android. Bought a book that really needed bigger screen and colour to give it justice) Having said that, DRM free is absolutely easier! I did a quick check on Google Books (or whatever the name is nowadays) and the Swedish books are DRM free as in other book stores, but the English ones have Adobe DRM. |
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Have new Kindle devices removed text-to-speech and mp3 playback functionality to push for Audible integration?
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I don't know that they ever sensibly supported MP3.
The oldest ones had plain TTS and sort of badly supported MP3. Later Kindles had a sort of voice view accessibility feature, really hard to use, that could do TTS also, but not easily MP3. Some like PW3 work with a generic USB audio adaptor (because the 3.5mm jack socket removed) and needed a download. Ones with BT just needed paired BT earphones, which IMO are mostly inferior to €12 wired earbuds/phones. Some of those do Audible. But MP3 and Audible are better on a phone. Possibly TTS is better on a phone too*. Pocketbook app TTS on Android is better than TTS on DXG, KK3, PW3, Oasis gen 2 and PW4. Pocketbook App with TTS works on Android 6 to current (I tested 6, 7, 8, 10, 11) and I think on iOS. Possibly the Kindle app on Android does TTS, but I haven't tested, because if you have an eink Kindle then it's trivial to convert to epub with Calibre (from separately downloaded Amazon files) and use Pocket book. Obviously use the Audible app for for Audible. I use Musicolet for MP3s and DRM-free audiobooks on Android as it can remember position and is very good. * Battery life isn't a huge issue for a phone as the display is blank (dramatically improved), but is dramatically poorer on eink because the ereader can't sleep. However I've not done a comparison. Last edited by Quoth; 04-28-2023 at 06:33 AM. |
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