Do you know if that affects movies bought through Apple’s TV app (US)? I have quite a few movies in my collection and would be really annoyed if they didn’t work in Europe.
There are still countries where the Apple TV app hasn't even been released. Summing up the Wikipedia numbers, about 100 countries have access to this app. Even in Europe, Apple TV+ isn't available everywhere (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411). In countries like Albania they don't even seem to make iTunes Movies available.
According to this community post (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253966277) that implies that DRM'd content is not available in those countries, and that you'll need to download your movies and for them to work depending on the country you're visiting.
If you're coming over for a temporary visit, setting up a VPN on your home network may be a good idea. Many American services are not available in other countries, even if you're a paying customer.
Is there a non-DRM format + an e-reader combo that allows for bookmarks, text selection, dictionary search? Ideally I would prefer to keep my Kindle but would really love to buy and own non-DRM books.
You can use Calibre to convert your ebooks to MOBI/AZW3, which Kindle accepts, and if you put your Kindle in airplane mode (so it stops getting OTA updates) and wait log enough it'll probably get a jailbreak at some point. At which point you can install KOReader for superior PDF/DjVu reading experience. Last jailbreak covers Kindle software <= 5.14.2; so Kindle Voyage and earlier all should be supported. (See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346037 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220553)
This looks very promising. In addition to using KOReader I will be able to customize the lock screen and remove Amazon's upsells. I guess the only downside is that I won't be able to use WiFi or buy e-books from Amazon.
Also, Koreader runs on many brands of ereaders, so it may be worth exploring if you're interested. Kobo readers can read non-DRM epubs out of the box and can also run Koreader. Check out the MobileRead forums.
Here's the one for Kindles:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=140
Likebook mars, I got it in the 2018 for about 200$ and still using it today, is basically android with an e-ink display, so you can pretty much do anything with epub and pdf.
I don't buy drm crap, genesis all the way, I don't give a fuck, someone needs to come up with a better business model.
I got a Kobo and it does bookmarks, text selection and dictionary search fine. I shop from a variety of places, but only buy DRM-free EPUB books (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/ for example)
I use Calibre to organise the books (and convert formats if necessary) and push them to the device.
I backup the entire collection using a USB backup drive irregularly (once a month or so). I'm experimenting with Syncthing to backup to a rented baremetal server. So far so good.
The devices themselves are Android tablets, with an e-ink display. You can install and use any other Android ebook software, including among those, Koboreader, PocketBook, and FBReader.
My preference among those is actually Onyx's reader, at least on their own devices.
This is really sad. Artificial constraints on a medium that was supposed to democratize access to information.
I am right now in line to borrow the new DeGrasse Tyson’s book and will have to wait for almost 6 weeks for my turn. They have only 3 digital copies available and almost a hundred people waiting ahead of me.
The funny thing is that I found a DRM-free copy of the book you mentioned on the internet in less than a minute. PDF or ePub, your pick; probably converted from the same source.
Whatever these publishers are trying to do, they're only hurting their honest customers. It's trivial to find popular eBooks online regardless of library licenses and DRM usage yet honest people's lives are made so incredibly difficult for no good reason.
Hundred people waiting for a 5-10MB file to become "available".
You'll eventually get it, and you might even like it so much that you purchase the physical copy, but that purchase won't happen for months because of some artificial constraint like this.
It sounds more like an admiring compliment. Although for cloud providers, the costs of things like hackers stealing credentials and using them to mine shitcoins are also considerable.
This is one of those cases when Jira is suffering from its UI/IA mess. It has lots of good feature but the discoverability is horrendous, which leads to so much user (my) confusion.
