Yeah. Thanks for the Reminder.

Or in brief, "Amazon dun something shitty again" which means I'm being led back to my beloved epub reader app, which I've just loaded up some more with converted Kindle books.

This video came out a few days ago, and I didn't get to see it till just yesterday because I finally have time to sit down and decompress properly BECAUSE I had to call in sick. Yay, day job. 

It's actually been 2 - 3 years since I switched over completely from buying Kindle books to buying epub books, a format that's agnostic enough to be read by a variety of e-reading devices. Yes, including Kindle. You can buy a book elsewhere in epub format, email it to your Kindle account, and Amazon then converts that file to KFX, which is their proprietary format. That way, you can still hold on to old Kindle books and read them alongside the newer (converted) epub ones. That's a win all the way, and that's what I've been doing all this time.

Since I gave up my old Kindle devices when they got too old to be supported and only use the free phone app, I never really thought about the great feature Amazon used to offer customers: download purchased e-books to your computer so you can transfer it to your device via USB. It's a reassuring reminder that the books you paid for are yours. Apparently Amazon's about to take that away, too, with this exclusive move to cloud storage as I understand it.

Yeah, no. Fucking Bezos has too much control already.

So I pretty much spent a good chunk of my sick day yesterday combing through my extensive library of Kindle ebooks from years past. I knew there was no way I was going to be willing to spend time downloading and converting every freaking title I bought. So I just cherry picked books I loved and would like to reread down the line. Happily for me, they all were in a KFX format that I was able to strip before converting to an epub format. Save for the books of one author, that is, and in order for me to own HER books, I'll have to buy them in print format. I don't mind doing that, but it'll take me more time to get those books since print books ain't cheap. 

Once I'm settled down completely and am happy with the stuff I've converted and uploaded to my epub e-reader, I'm deleting my Kindle app for good. I guess ownership ain't what it used to be, so screw that.