On a long enough timeline the odds that regime puppets like Amazon will start erasing history is 100%.
Download the ebook and then convert it to a PDF file. Once it's no longer in its original format don't think you're at any reasonable risk of stealth edits.
I'm assuming that epub is the native format and so when Amazon's tool does its censorship routine, it scans your device for a file matching its own internal format and replaces it. If that's how it works, then going for a converted format would be best since it would be less likely they'd replace it
I've never paid for an ebook in my life. Most of my books are EPUBs and a few PDFs. You can even convert them to mobi and other e-reader formats if you wanna read it in your kindle.
The only way to buy ebooks that I know of is through dumbass services like nook and Kindle where they can revoke your stuff and you depend on them maintaining the service forever for access to your books. Fuck that.
This is going to start costing me money. Woodhouse was one of my favorites as a kid when I was penniless and most of my books were from the ol' public library. I don't own many books of his at the moment, so I will have to start spending on pre-2000 imprints. And Woodhouse is not the only author I care about that this is happening to.
That doesn't even address the awkwardness I'm going to face in another decade or two when I realize whoever I'm talking to may have read these new "sanitized" versions. Maoist bullshit.
So, here's the real problem with ebooks:
I got a free Kindle copy of the complete works of P.G. Wodehouse from Amazon. Any bets that they stealth edit it?
On a long enough timeline the odds that regime puppets like Amazon will start erasing history is 100%.
Download the ebook and then convert it to a PDF file. Once it's no longer in its original format don't think you're at any reasonable risk of stealth edits.
EPUB works better and you can own the file like a PDF.
I'm assuming that epub is the native format and so when Amazon's tool does its censorship routine, it scans your device for a file matching its own internal format and replaces it. If that's how it works, then going for a converted format would be best since it would be less likely they'd replace it
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That's the problem with 'paid' ebooks. libgen. Just saying.
I've never paid for an ebook in my life. Most of my books are EPUBs and a few PDFs. You can even convert them to mobi and other e-reader formats if you wanna read it in your kindle.
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The only way to buy ebooks that I know of is through dumbass services like nook and Kindle where they can revoke your stuff and you depend on them maintaining the service forever for access to your books. Fuck that.
This is going to start costing me money. Woodhouse was one of my favorites as a kid when I was penniless and most of my books were from the ol' public library. I don't own many books of his at the moment, so I will have to start spending on pre-2000 imprints. And Woodhouse is not the only author I care about that this is happening to.
That doesn't even address the awkwardness I'm going to face in another decade or two when I realize whoever I'm talking to may have read these new "sanitized" versions. Maoist bullshit.