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    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Phoobar on Sunday, June 21, 2020 14:06:00
    Hello Phoobar!

    ** On Wednesday 20.05.20 - 16:00, Phoobar wrote to Vk3jed:

    Oh yeah! Used to order Kindle books from Amazon. If I couldn't break the DRM on a product I spent money on...wouldn't have bought them. After their history of stealing my purchase because someone threw a fit...I don't care if they think I only own a license...I bought a product.

    I thought it was astonishing that Amazon/Kindle (and Indigo/Kobo)
    entertained the privilege to remove any book that you purchased and/or
    even substitute your prior purchase with another one! I can't remember
    which titles they pulled in that manner. But you won't find new copies of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in print for purchase that haven't been altered.

    N-word -> slave
    Injun Joe -> Indian Joe
    half-breed to half-blood

    There may be other changes. But I don't recall.


    Here's an old article about the original fiasco:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Ogg on Monday, June 22, 2020 15:42:00
    On 06-21-20 14:06, Ogg wrote to Phoobar <=-

    I thought it was astonishing that Amazon/Kindle (and Indigo/Kobo) entertained the privilege to remove any book that you purchased and/or even substitute your prior purchase with another one! I can't remember which titles they pulled in that manner. But you won't find new copies
    of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in print for purchase
    that haven't been altered.

    That's where Calibre helps, you can save your ebooks as they were the day you bought them, without DRM. The first thing I do with any new ebooks is add them to my Calibre library, just in case. :)


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  • From Phoobar@21:2/147 to Ogg on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 01:08:41
    I thought it was astonishing that Amazon/Kindle (and Indigo/Kobo) entertained the privilege to remove any book that you purchased and/or even substitute your prior purchase with another one! I can't remember

    It started out as 1984...then headed onto others I can't remember the titles of. In terms of books...you head to Project Gutenberg outside the US where Mickey Mouse/Disney isn't god...you can find books which will never be in PD
    in the US...but are other places. And this was just because Disney didn't
    want for their #1 character to be shown how perverted some would make him.

    which titles they pulled in that manner. But you won't find new copies
    of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in print for purchase
    that haven't been altered.

    Won't tell you which country I use to find my PD books under their copyright laws...but we have many members who live there. You may even be able to find
    an unaltered copy of the 2 you mentioned.

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