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[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 11 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] SoyTDI@eslemmy.es 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, sorry for the wrong link!

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