I barely cared about the Roald Dahl changes before, but hearing that they are forcing updates to customers who had previously purchased uncensored ebooks makes me want to throw my Kindle in the trash. pic.twitter.com/5SEaoHUb3b
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One of the many, many, many reasons why analog books continue to be superior.
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You won't be saying that when I bust down your chud door and change your chud books with my anti-chud marker, will you, chud?
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heh Sorry karen but thanks to this baby , his name is always gonna be BIPOC Jim in this household
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Books in the USSR literally had censorship that clumsy.
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Hot
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True, but in this case it's more of a reason why you should just pirate your ebooks instead of buying them. Kind of the same reason why pirating games is better than getting them full of spyware/malware/r-slurredware but with a licence...
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Profitmisia will not be tolerated, please do better
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Sup idio
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you're not supposed to actually buy ebooks
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Yeah wtf imagine buying a wall of text, just download everything in PDF format.
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ebooks are just web pages in a zipfile.
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or epube format on piratebay
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I can still break into your house at night and scribble my edits in your analog books
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You should c*m on them
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Huh, that's weird. Why are all the pages in these books already sticky?
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Whatever you do, don’t touch his copy of Anne franks diary
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sorry i am not tryin to help the sensitivity readers.
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What an r-slured but sadly needed phrase
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Enjoy your unsanctioned copy of The Fires of Heaven while I get to enjoy the new, canonical flashback of Moiraine and Siuan's time as pillowfriends before she falls through the red doorway.
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My middleschool library was full of manually censored books. All copies of Tom Sawyer had the word BIPOC covered with sharpie. Some books had whole pages ripped out that had sexual content etc. Imagine the effort these parents went through.
Despite their best efforts though I managed to locate Peepee Gregory's autobiography there which I chose to do a book report on, my neighbor got me an A.
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Literally 1984
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The irony was you could still hold them up to the light and read it, though it got a little convoluted when whole pages were blacked out, which is why they resorted to ripping pages out lmao
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how many analog books can you fit in yer pocket?
YEAH TAHT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. CHECK MATE ATHEIST.
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a kindle is a fine piece of hardware, but to be safe from oligarchic censorship you should only store pirated ebooks on it.
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Books and pdfs and physical copies of anything digital to a storage device is the only way to actually have semblance of ownership of something.
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Or just use zlibrary
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Didn't get it
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https://singlelogin.me
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They have a telegram bot that works fine
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It's even on regular internet too: https://singlelogin.me
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Alive and well. Clearnet access is even back.
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*libgen
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What’s that?
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Or you can just pirate audiobooks like a normal person
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Choose one
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Frick off illiterate
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Only to kindle. PDF readers stay winming harder than both
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Or you know, download your ebooks locally where they can't be force updated.
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Just pirate pdfs and epubs lmao
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