![]() GrapheneOS is focused on substance rather than branding and marketing. The project cares a lot about usability and app compatibility so those are taken into account for all of our features. GrapheneOS makes substantial improvements to both privacy and security through many carefully designed features built to function against real adversaries. It starts from the strong baseline of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and takes great care to avoid increasing attack surface or hurting the strong security model. And (to me) perfectly ethical since you BOUGHT the ebook, right? No one in this group (with our love of books and authors) should be getting books without paying unless it's a giveaway.GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality and usability. It may technically be illegal (depending on what country you live in), but it's illegal in the same way as speeding - almost nil chance of it hurting you unless you're going WAY above the speed limit. It's the DRM-removal plugin that you may or may not want to use depending on how you feel about those things. It also allows you put put books onto your ereaders via USB connect. Important to note, since a few folks (including myself) have mentioned Calibre - it's a perfectly legal bit of software for managing your ebooks and their metadata. That same Calibre plugin that removes it also works with Adobe's DRM and MAYBE still works with Nook (used to back when I used to buy my books at B&N.com) That said, you'd still be supporting Amazon, so I guess that leaves Kobo. ![]() Rick says this doesn't work on a mac, but on Windows (or a Windows VM if you have a mac, I guess) it's pretty easy to remove from Kobo or Amazon store. Tor.com giveaways (which can be awesome - last year they gave away ALL the Murderbot novellas) are always in both epub and mobi Humble Bundle and Story Bundle sell their books DRM-free and usually include epub, mobi, and PDF for their books (and comics!) mobi (or whatever format Kindle uses) as well as PDF or any other format. With Calibre you can convert the books to. all of Tor.com's books on there are DRM free. Heard about this from the podcast episode - if you're still looking - a few more options: ![]() Some authors have control over their ebooks and make them available on multiple platforms. Smashwords ( ), Itch ( ) and other small/self publishers tend toward a drm-free model. Stores like Amazon and Barnes&Noble apply DRM unless the publisher insists otherwise because they want the lock-in. Rick wrote: "Stores, including Amazon, don't apply DRM if the publisher doesn't want them to, so if you find a store with no DRM on titles where all the others have it? It's probably a ripoff so you're effectiv." Once you start looking around, you find many interesting things that aren't on Amazon.Ī also has both out-of-copyright ebooks and an ebook lending library.Īn increasing number of established authors are breaking out of the traditional model and self-publishing through crowdfunding platforms īefore you dismiss it, remember that Becky Chamber's Long Way to a Small Angry Planet was as a Kickstarter. Welcome to to the no-Amazon crowd! You have to forgo the convenience and Amazon exclusives, but there is so much to consume, that the little extra work to find it is insignificant. ![]()
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