[Fast Company] E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance (www.fastcompany.com)

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A new report reveals that the world’s largest publisher may be selling readers’ intimate personal data to the highest bidder.

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[-] imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like my kobo Libra 2, pretty sure you don't need any account or anything.

I use calibre exclusively.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Calibre with Libra is great. Never needs to be online and any format you want.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I use Librera FD with epubs from Oceanofpdf.org on android

[-] SoyTDI@eslemmy.es 2 points 2 years ago

For everyone clicking this link ☝️, try this one https://oceanofpdf.com/ .

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, sorry for the wrong link!

[-] jantin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.