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[jason10mm]

In light of the looming amazon crackdown on downloading/transfering kindle books to PC (which is probably an overblown fear but maybe prelude to something larger) I decided to 'back-up' my kindle library to my PC. This was about 750+ titles going back to 2009. You sorta have to do this manually in batches, so it was a bit of a walk back in tome seeing books that I had all but forgotten about. My last page, the earliest books I downloaded, brought a smile to my face.

FIRST book, April 1, 2009, was book seven of Eriksons fabulous Malazan Cycle, Reaper's Gale. I recall the whole reason I jumped on the kindle was because these books were like 1000+ pages each and just a pain to carry around. Then there were some free public domain titles, The Pagans by Arlo Bates and Children of Odin by Padraic Colum. Just a few weeks later, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Yep, my tastes have not changed much over the past 16 years since nor the 16 years prior, really.

If you are interested about the change amazon kinda tried to stealth drop, you can read about it here https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Is it a prelude to ensuring that you can NEVER archive your ebooks and they can always remove or replace them with "corrected for modern audiences" versions? Perhaps. We've seen that streaming video services do have maintain eternally present catalogues and are not always interested in giving you a choice in the version you can see. Will this attitude permeate ebooks? Probably not, but it only took me a couple minutes to sent them all to my PC, though its taking a while to download since there are quite a few graphic novels in there. Also some rather risque adult titles I think I nabbed on a lark that I rather not be mixed in with the general population. Oops, forgot all about "Naked Battle Elves" though from what I recall the cover art is by far the most raunchy thing...maybe

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I bought so many books off of Kindle that I forgot what the first book I purchased is. I mostly read kindle off my phone or tablet most of the time nowadays

But I especially like reading Comics on Kindle

These recent changes that Amazon has been doing have made me more wary of them and wondering if they are going to do some even more major in the future.

If anything I've been also using this app called Kobo Books and it's a competitor to Kindle. So far it's great

 

[swaffles23]

Star Wars Heir to the Empire was the first Kindle book I bought in 2014

 

[Fbh]

Battle Royale.
Back then it hadn't been published in Spanish so finding it in my country was basically impossible. (The only English books you could find were very famous stuff like Harry Potter or LOTR).

Loved it. It actually made me realize the movie isn't a particularly good adaptation.

 

[jason10mm]

Battle Royale.
Back then it hadn't been published in Spanish so finding it in my country was basically impossible. (The only English books you could find were very famous stuff like Harry Potter or LOTR).

Loved it. It actually made me realize the movie isn't a particularly good adaptation.

Yeah, I think the manga was a bit out there as well. A lot more nudity IIRC. Though with translations who can ever really say what interpretation is more correct.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Battle Royale.
Back then it hadn't been published in Spanish so finding it in my country was basically impossible. (The only English books you could find were very famous stuff like Harry Potter or LOTR).

Loved it. It actually made me realize the movie isn't a particularly good adaptation.

I never read the manga but I'm a huge fan of the book which is what the manga and Japanese film adapts it from

 

[AJUMP23]

I have never bought a kindle or digital book. I like the feel of paper in my hands when reading.

I have tried digital comics. Still prefer paper.

 

[Windle Poons]

I'll let you know when I buy one.

 

[Rush2112]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's better to buy a traditional book or search for downloads on mediafire and watch them on your laptop.

 

[Poppinfresh]

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons and Anathem by Neal Stephenson were my first Kindle purchases on the original Kindle when it was first released.

I've been pretty much all ebook ever since.

 

[violence]

Ghost in the Wires.

I ended up listening to the audiobook instead. It's the story about the old school hacker Kevin Mitnick (also the audiobook narrator). The guy was an adrenaline junkie and it was a hoot.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

Gears of War: The Slab and it was worth every penny.

 

[jason10mm]

I never read the manga but I'm a huge fan of the book which is what the manga and Japanese film adapts it from

Manga is good as well, though a lot more nudity/sex from what I recall. I liked all three though.

Dammit, didn't even realize I had already commented saying basically the exact same ting

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

Una Historia de España

 

[Hyperborean]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

 

[Poppinfresh]

But I especially like reading Comics on Kindle

I ended up self-hosting Komga for Comics and Manga. Doesn't work on Kindle but it works great on Tablet/Phone/PC.

 

[Quasicat]

The first one I downloaded (for free as it is public domain) was Common Sense by Thomas Paine. The first one I bought was Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. My first couple of years teacher was 6th grade reading and that was the first book I ever taught. As for Common Sense, I went from teaching reading to American History and loved reading it on my own.

 

[Plies]

Mode One by Allan Roger Currie.

 

[Yerd]

First is hard to remember. Maybe one of the Dresden Files books. Or Game of Thrones or maybe some of the classics like Starship Troopers, saw the movie first and I like it better than the book, sue me.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I tried Kindle, bought the fancy one too, just couldn't do it.

I have no idea what it is but trying to read books from any form of screen just doesn't work for me. I just buy all books in the traditional sense.

 

[mopspear]

Some stupid ass book about prostitution in the Caribbean for my TOURISM class! I think it was called "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

 

[digital_ghost]

This was my first book purchase.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

I tried Kindle, bought the fancy one too, just couldn't do it.

I have no idea what it is but trying to read books from any form of screen just doesn't work for me. I just buy all books in the traditional sense.

I can relate to this for sure, but the amount of physical books I piled up became unmanageable. By the time I was in my early 30's I had a small library's worth (but no house with enough to have an actual study in....my video games and tech eat up most of that sort of space). Ended up selling all of them but a select few that I kept for sentimental reasons.

I have a few kindles and I do struggle to read on them, I still get it done, it just doesn't...I don't know..."feel as good" as reading a regular book.

Anyway, the latest scribe devices has worked for me better than any other device, have about 300 or so books that I have finished but most of them are pulpy sci-fi or fantasy books that I don't learn anything from. Mostly escapism I guess.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I tried Kindle, bought the fancy one too, just couldn't do it.

I have no idea what it is but trying to read books from any form of screen just doesn't work for me. I just buy all books in the traditional sense.

Same here, I just don't like it in any form (kindle, normal tablet, smartphone etc.) and I still read all books in traditional format. Same with buying paper versions of videogame magazines.