Got my Boox Note Air 4C yesterday! It feels very solid and premium and the e-ink screen is great! I used it a bit before sleep last night.
It's just a bit heavy to hold with a single hand for a long time. But given its screen size it's probably unavoidable.
After some trial and error I figured out a way to get all my kindle books downloaded and DRM stripped. I also managed to use Libby for Boston Public Library!
Gonna read more this winter!
“Amazon will let you download your e-books in EPUB in 2026”
So, this could be big for authors on KDP. Customers will be able to use any eReader they wish to read their books.
I’ve been on a Kobo Clara Colour (with Kobo Plus) for a while. And I’d love to slip a few Kindle Exclusive titles in. The whole exclusivity thing is kind of galling, from an e-reader/walled garden perspective.
This sounds great from a consumer-freedom perspective. But I understand there may be some authors who are reluctant or worried.
Personally... If the Napster wars era of mp3’s (ending up in Spotify/Amazon Music/et al.) taught anyone anything, it is that as long as you provide a product at a reasonable price, in a conveniently accessible manner, you won’t have a piracy problem.
https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-will-let-you-download-your-e-books-in-epub-in-2026
Are you going to update your books to remove DRM?
https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-emailing-authors-about-the-new-epub-and-pdf-formats
If you make EPUB documents, or build tools for EPUBs, do you think EPUBs should continue requiring the XML syntax for HTML? Tell W3C what you think by filling the simple survey by the W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group. 4 questions, responses anonymized:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/1/epubhtml/
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