Saw a number of free books on Apple Books and was wondering if I could get them on my Kindle. Every single one I tried was DRM-free other than 1984.
You not being able to read 1984 because of DRM isn’t ironic.
But you not able to read the book, because of DRM, and then invoking some preconceived notion about 1984, to claim irony. About a book you can’t read. That is ironic. And you won’t know just how ironic until you read the book.
Alanis Morissette eat your heart out.
Having read it a long time ago I was having a hard time figuring out what’s ironic about it, thanks for confirming I’m not forgetting something from the book.
I think OP was saying that a book that basically tells you to deny Big Brother, fuck the system, and think for yourself is being protected behind the system, in this case DRM
That’s just my guess, though. Haven’t honestly read 1984 since college
I might be wrong but isn’t a concern about DRM that it locks you into a specific ecosystem, which can spy on you? Sure, it’s not government surveillance, but I think that it’s still ironic.
Certainly a stretch. Fahrenheit 451 would be a better example
Government surveillance is only what the zeitgeist has turned 1984 into. It isn’t really the focus of the book. Sure, it’s there, but it isn’t the largest thing. The thing is, it’s much better for the media to tell you that it’s just about government surveillance rather than you actually learning what it’s about, which is really also more what it’s about. Now that’s irony.
Government surveillance is to 1984 as the pre-title sequence is to James Bond movies.
Look just read the book.
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Remember that time Amazon just straight-up deleted everybody’s bought-and-paid-for copies of 1984 from their Kindles?
Just install this calibre plugin and forget about it :
Z-lib is your friend, but make sure to use the real site and not any of the copied scam sites. Currently those two domains work:
There are some tools out there to rip the DRM out of those.
Yeah, I know. E-Book DRM is super lame, because nearly every version of it has already been cracked. It’s just frustrating.
Fun factoid:
Not the easiest way(need to register, etc.), but I once cracked DRM on an e-book by using my old sony e-reader’s software combined with adobe digital editions. I think my sony e-reader is too old to work with current DRM, so sony/adobe would allow you to convert it to a DRM free version.
Not only has DRM been cracked. It’s possible to crack it using official software. Like someone complaining about piracy after chucking a copy of their movie on a torrent site.
Obviously, there are much easier ways. Or just pirate that shit after you’ve bought it.
Obviously, there are much easier ways. Or just pirate that shit after you’ve bought it.
I agree with purchasing something to support the creators, which is done mostly to allow them to make more similar stuff. Orwell has been dead for 73 years though. I hope he doesn’t write any more. I don’t know where the money goes for the purchase now, but it’s not supporting the creator anymore.
I can tell I’ve had a really long day when I tried to click the X on OP’s screenshot.
1984 is when cant read book
Isn’t 1984 in the public domain?
Not in the United States.
If that’s true, that is stupid as shit. Orwell was British, and so is Secker & Warburg, the publishing company that published the book.
hi fellow kde enjoyer
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It’s a good story in my opinion. It’s not exciting and it doesn’t follow common story structure >!the main character just reverts to where he started, for example!<, but it’s worth a read. It’s not particularly long, and it’s still culturally relevant.
Like a lot of older books, it doesn’t quite give you that dopamine hit you get from today’s media. It’s a product of its time in that way.
But in other ways, it’s a timeless classic. I was rewatching the vice documentaries where they visit North Korea and I was absolutely blown away by the parallels between the DPRK and 1984.
When Kim Jong Un attends Vice’s basketball game with the Harlem Globe Trotters and talks about friendship with the Americans, the journalist points out how bizarre it is considering the fact that their entire trip has been nonstop “fuck the American Bastards” propaganda up until that point.
All I could think was “We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.”
Similarly, the way the North Koreans in the stands scream, “Live 10,000 years!” over and over and over when Kim Jong Un enters the room reminded me of the two minutes hate from the novel, just inverted.
I mean, whether it’s a riveting tale or not (I happen to think it is), it definitely serves as a warning. The novel seems absolutely absurd to us in modern America because we can’t believe that their society could really exist. We might know it logically but I don’t think it hits home for us emotionally that 1984 is a perfectly realistic outcome for a society gone wrong.
The only reason I wanted to was because my sister had some comments about it.
