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This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.

However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.

There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).

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

There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.

Here are the terms of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.

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[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Readarr + calibre makes it very convenient and easy (the rest of the arr suite is great for other forms of media too)

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Too bad there's no easy way for a tech illiterate dumb person such as myself to read a step-by-fucking-step instruction to get it all working for myself.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You basically need 3 things: readarr, a torrent client, and a VPN.

There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this. The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: https://wiki.servarr.com/readarr

Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: https://www.qbittorrent.org/ . You're also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.

Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this.

And of which you provided zero directions on where to look.

The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: https://wiki.servarr.com/readarr

I read through the site and it gets to a part where it assumes I know how to setup a port reverse proxy on a server. Definitely not friendly for tech illiterate people such as myself. So this is a dogshit instruction.

Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: https://www.qbittorrent.org/ . You're also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.

Cool. Now where the hell do I find the books? Your instructions also suck for tech illiterate people.

Apologies for sounding rude, but you guys all preach this shit but there's nowhere to read where they teach dumb morons like me to do this without already knowing high level networking protocols and manual VPN configuration management. And it's really frustrating.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just download a book on tech savvyness.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one -1 points 1 month ago
[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For finding guides and videos - just search for {thing you want to setup} setup guide, there are plenty of results for almost everything. Also, I then showed links to where to setup readarr and qbittorrent.

The only thing you need to get up and running is the OS specific guides (windows is download, run the installer, go to http://localhost:8787/ in your browser, and macos is similar. Linux is a bit of a mess, and I would recommend going the docker-compose route if you are on Linux instead) which are short and tell you every step. The reverse proxy is just a recommended guide for setting one up if you want to access it outside of your network - I don't recommend doing it, and it's not necessary at all (I don't have that setup, all of my stuff is only accessible on my local network)

For finding books, use the readarr quick start guide - it goes over how to use the app, how to add authors and books to grab, etc. I also found this guide that appears to show how to do all of this including the install guide, adding authors and books, connecting to your torrent client, adding indexers, etc: https://www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/guide-to-readarr#05

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay thank you for the elaboration. I am very dumb and impatient. We appreciate you

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know you guys conversed this far; just wanted to share with you that readarr functions like wet garbage compared to the other arr programs. Just don't go in with high expectations with readarr, and if it ends up not working well (or at all), just know the other arrs are really top notch. Radarr works awesome and sonarr will literally keep your shows up to current for you. All that said too... there is a steep learning curve to this whole thing if you're new to docker.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions

Apologies for sounding rude, but you guys all preach this shit but there's nowhere to read where they teach dumb morons like me to do this without already knowing high level networking protocols and manual VPN configuration management. And it's really frustrating.

Respectfully, they literally said it varies depending on which you use and that the providers of the VPN you do end up using should provide you instructions.

Examples:

(I just chose random VPNs I know that exist, this is not an endorsement or recommendation of these specific VPNs.)

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it would be if Readarr worked consistently.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only issues I ever had were around authors having a bunch of books that weren't released or were in different languages, that was solved by narrowing the profiles for what readarr finds which was a 2 minute task

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Years of ongoing issues with their metadata server bricking its ability to search for content.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like it's Goodreads fault since it's their api (which they are also killing at some undetermined date), readarr is switching to openbooks which should solve a lot of the problems but it's slow going since readarr doesn't really have consistent contributors