The dead tree version is about a dollar more than the silly lease-under-onerous-terms-pretending-to-be-purchase version. Do the world a favor and opt for the physical book so you don’t contribute to the anti-consumer digital distribution company.
> You must not have viewed or printed, in total, more than five percent (5%) of the e-book.
-- from <https://global.oup.com/academic/help/ebooks/?cc=ca&lang=en&#...>
According to that I'm not covered because I tried to print more than that percentage of the book to PDF (and was presented with the kind of unusable garbage output shown in my post).
diggan•8mo ago
I guess it's easy to say "Don't buy X from Y", but if it's the only option, what can one individual really do about it, besides just not purchasing it at all or pirating it?
ndsipa_pomu•8mo ago
(There's a bunch of physical copies available on eBay)
sdh9•8mo ago
diggan•8mo ago
> As of 26th February 2025, Amazon has removed the ability to download backups of your Kindle books. Unfortunately, this means that this tool is no longer functional - https://github.com/treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader
After removing that feature I kind of feel like it'll just be too much of a hassle, so stopped buying books via Kindle. But haven't found any better alternative either to be honest.
sdh9•8mo ago
You can still use Calibre to remove & decrypt the files via USB from a Kindle.
crtasm•8mo ago