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[Fast Company] E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
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The title is a little confusing. It's not the ebooks but the ebook readers - especially Kindle - that are able to gather and send data. Makes me wonder what the best hardware and software for private ebook reading is.
I did a quick search for "best ebook reader for privacy" and got the usual review sites, but "privacy" isn't mentioned in any of their reviews.
So what are the options? There's an add-on for Firefox called Epubreader ... I'll have to keep looking into it. Definitely getting off the kindle/amazon train though.
I like my kobo Libra 2, pretty sure you don't need any account or anything.
I use calibre exclusively.
Calibre with Libra is great. Never needs to be online and any format you want.
An old Pocketbook would be (and still is) my hardware of choice. They run some kind of Linux, support apps (which need to be sideloaded), .mobi, .epub, mangas and .pdf (this one is a bit choppy but it's a decade old device). The only available connectivity is wifi which I keep off because browsing is shit on an ereader.
I use Librera FD with epubs from Oceanofpdf.org on android
For everyone clicking this link ☝️, try this one https://oceanofpdf.com/ .
Ah, sorry for the wrong link!
I have a first gen Kindle Paperwhite, and just never connect it to the Internet. Privacy problem solved.