Post by steffenkd

Just wanted to buy the e-book version of "Momo". Until 2022 I had an amazon-kindle with unlimited umts-network access for the kindle store, which was released in 2013 or earlier.
Despite the fact that you had to buy from amazon it was a really good all in all concept and the reader was very good especially the display. Additionally removal of DRM was easily possible with calibre and some addon in the past.

In 2019 the displayed cracked but I managed to get a used one on ebay since the umts-delivery is just amazing. Completely hassle-free reading in most places around the world.
Since amazon had stopped the lifelong-umts delivery support in 2022 and I wanted to have a backlight upgrade, I switched to a "kobo libra 2" which is waterproof as well. Tried the "amazon kindle paperwhite" before, but the display was really bad compared to the 2013 version. Not sure why that is.

Now I wanted to download the "Momo" e-book from the kobo ebookstore, but it didn't work several times. My guess is some copyright bs in whatever country and maybe some bug in their backend software, since I am in germany where the book was intitaly released and the "not available in your country because of blablabla shouldn't apply, but well, who knows nowadays.
For some years now I mainly read classical or really old stuff which is "free" so e-book purchases for money haven't been on my radar so far. Have tried their website several times to get some SciFi or Fantasy ebooks for light reading and it was always a nightmare. This time it just didn't work.
On amazon I would need to get an adobe whatever license and on the authors own page I can't buy it.
Tried the removal of DRM with calibre and the addon as well with some e-books I bought for my girlfriend which got my old kindle reader and can read through my library, but wasn't able to get it working.

So instead of just being able to pay for a ******* e-pub version without DRM, for the device of my choosing, I just wasted half an hour of my life trying to legally purchase a ******** 2MB file in the ******* 21st century!

After half an hour I gave up and copyright infringed the **** out of the book. Took me one minute.

Very incentivized concept we got here…