![]() ![]() You are not entitled to someone else's creative work under any conditions other than those that they set, period. But separately from whatever meaning you attach to the word "piracy" - illegally downloading creative works is theft. Obviously there is no boat-stealing or plundering involved - no Johnny Depp or kraken here. I can't tell if you're taking the word literally or not. > There is no actual pirating going on when you copy a digital file. Once I try opening them on Calibre, I get an error message saying the files are protected by DRM.įunnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place.Īfter spending hours trying to buy e-books, having my Amazon account blocked, and downloading files that can't be transferred to my Kindle, the only conclusion I come to, is that I'm never buying e-books again. epub file is downloaded, and even though I can't transfer the files to my kindle on ADE, I download Calibre to transfer them. acsm format, and can only be opened on the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software. After buying them, I download the files, which are in an. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them.Īfter a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company.Ģ. Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened:ġ. The first two are based on the percent read, the others the reading list.The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget. The open book means "reading", the green tick is "read", the star means "to rate" on whatever site it came from or Goodreads and the blue arrow means is an in-progress story from some web site. I've attached a small screen shot showing this. For mine I also use the Reading List plugin and set some icons based on that. The rules can be a lot more complicated than that. There are ways to have it match several rules and display several icons. With these settings, it stops at the first match. The rules are processed from top to bottom. That gives a good visual indication plus I can see how far through the book I am. Then add a second rule that shows a different icon if the percent read is greater than 0. First drop down: My percent read custom columnĪll that means is "if the percent read field is equal to 100, display the green tick in the percent read column without the value". For "read", I used the green tick that calibre uses in various places. These have to be added to the list using the "Add icon" button. Third drop down: Selected the icon to be displayed. Second drop down: My percent read custom column Go to the "Look & Feel" and then the "Custom icon" tab. Those I find useful in the list.įor the column icon, this is in the calibre preferences. I do display the percent read and last read timestamp. #6 davidfor 05-04-2014, 06:13 AMFirstly, I don't display the reading position in the library list. ![]()
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