Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn’t knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on free content.

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The 2024 eBook experience (with a pocketbook e-reader)

No Piracy:

  1. Go to bookstore in webbrowser on reader.

  2. Pay for book

  3. Download book (you can only do this 5 times)

  4. Open book (not really the book, its a link to ad*be to download the book.

  5. Get network error when opening my fucking ebook I paid for.

  6. Troubleshooting for 5 minutes

  7. Proceed to piracy section step 3

Piracy

  1. Go to bookstore Website and pay for book (cause personal ethics but you do you)
  2. Ignore download link
  3. Go to website of preference
  4. Download ebook
  5. Enjoy without ad*be enshittification

*edits cause formatting

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