tech
Stop using Amazon Kindle (before it's too late)
From 26 February 2025, Amazon will stop you downloading your *own* Kindle eBooks. You will be forever stuck in Amazon’s grip.
If you’d like to escape, download all your Kindle ebooks now before it's too late:
https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb
Remove the DRM using Calibre:
Ideally, start using a service that supports local bookstores:
- Libro (audiobooks): https://libro.fm/
- Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/ebooks
Or if you prefer another option:
- Apple Books: https://www.apple.com/apple-books/
- Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/nz/en
- Tom's Guide to DRM free ebooks: https://www.tomsguide.com/tablets/e-readers/no-kindle-no-problem-5-places-to-buy-drm-free-e-books
Posting on Bluesky
I’ve set up an account on bsky.app
I love micro.blog - but it’s small and paid.
I love that I can use my own domain (jeremybaker.nz) as my handle!
And lots of other cool stuff about Bluesky:
Alexa, Amazon and loss leading
So it seems that Alexa is making huge losses for Amazon.
It is not that making losses is unusual for Amazon; their entire business model is based on ‘loss leading’. The problem with Alexa appears to be that the ‘loss’ wasn’t ‘leading’ to anything…
Amazon Alexa is a colossal failure - on pace to lose 10 billion this year
This is so wonderful…
literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com
@Miraz - I think I might need to learn how to embed things!!
I have “defederated” (deleted) my cross-posting to Mastodon from Microblog - not because I’m not enjoying Mastodon (especially the paid hosting model at Cloudisland.nz - but because it is becoming clear that, for me, the two spaces will involve quite different types of posts.
Taking it easy on this first day of November 2022. I’m leaving Twitter, and focusing on Micro.blog (with an occasional side of Instagram). Beginning to figure out how to integrate with Mastodon NZ. #mbnov
I have a level of dependence on the new word for Microblogvember being posted before I go to sleep, but sometimes I miss it! Oh well :) #mbnov
So far, I am really, really enjoying macOS Big Sur. Installation went well, and my 2017 iMac is noticeably faster than it was before the upgrade. And the look and feel of the whole OS is much improved.
I guess I’ll give downloading and installing macOS Big Sur a go… or should I wait a few days? Hmm 🤔 #mbnov