Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)
I have this great idea for a business: &quot;ewhiteout&quot; for ebooks.<p>Basically you can selectively &quot;patch&quot; ebooks to censor profanity, sex scenes, violence, (and more) depending on your tastes and on what you like (and don&#x27;t like) to consume.<p>However, this is extremely unpopular with authors&#x2F;publishers for the same reason that censoring movies is extremely unpopular with Hollywood (hence why companies like VidAngel are constantly mired in legal issues despite widespread popularity with consumers).<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t understand why since at the end of the day everyone gets paid, and indeed get paid <i>more</i> than they normally would have (I guess it&#x27;s more of a &quot;you are altering my art so people can consume it in ways I didn&#x27;t intend&quot; attitude). But in my mind it&#x27;s no different from using whiteout on a physical book or picking out the mushrooms (or whatever you don&#x27;t like) in some chef&#x27;s dish.<p>Basically, I&#x27;ve already built the tech to do this for myself privately (and have patch files for ASoIaF and a dozen other epubs), but I will never share it (I&#x27;ve even considered FOSS) except with close family and friends even though I know it would be wildly popular in places like Utah because I fear legal pursuit from authors&#x2F;publishers (and since you must break DRM in order for the tech to work, I don&#x27;t see a way out).