Comments on: Today’s blacklisted American: Right-of-center books banned by Amazon

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 03:19:42 +0000

Skunk Bucket–

One can change the “Region” settings on a DVD player in a computer. (For a stand-alone player, you have to flash the firmware = more steps but doable.)
-Only familiar with Windows machines but you can do it on a MAC (and Linux) as well.
For Windows– go into the “properties” tab for your DVD player; click “properties” then select “hardware” and then “properties” (of the hardware) again–you’ll see a Tab with “DVD Regions.” (The World is divided into 8 “dvd regions.”) Select your Region and Play.
–>You can change the setting up to 5 (five) times total, but whatever the setting is on for your 5th change, will become permanent.

IIRC, –> VLC Player will ignore the dvd-region setting on playback.

By: Judy Warner

Judy Warner — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:27:54 +0000

I buy most of my physical books second-hand. I used to go to abebooks until I learned that it’s owned by Amazon. I have found that most of the books I want are available at Wonder Book and Video, a great used book store I used to frequent in person when I lived near Frederick, Maryland, that added online selling some years ago. It has a couple million used books in stock, ships free, and is slightly pricier than abebooks but that’s okay. Wonderbk.com.

By: Skunk Bucket

Skunk Bucket — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 05:50:29 +0000

I’ve been collecting conservative and non-PC movies on disc for posterity and ordered a copy of the Academy Award winning anti-communist film “The Lives of Others” from Amazon. What I got was formatted for “Playback Region B/2” and won’t work on American equipment. I figured I’d ordered the wrong thing and went back to look, but it turns out that Amazon doesn’t sell American versions of this film anymore. You can pay to see in on Prime, but you can’t own a copy. I don’t like to go around talking about conspiracy theories, but this sure would make it a lot easier to memory hole this movie later.

BTW, I did find an app that allowed me to watch the movie on my computer. I recommend this film highly, not just as an anti-Marxist piece, but because it’s a very well made movie overall.

By: SDVet

SDVet — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 03:30:40 +0000

ThriftBooks.com is my go to.

Closed my Amazon account last year, ditto Facebook, both are the face of evil.

Whenever I see the worm that owns WaPo, I always think “Rosebud” and can’t believe anyone takes it seriously.

Thanks for your site, God Bless.

By: Doubting Thomas

Doubting Thomas — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:21:38 +0000

All true but having concluded that the Republican party is mostly worthless, people have to go it alone. Think I’ve said things like the below on other posts here, so please forgive me.

If you are looking for physical books try Barnes and Noble, Books a Million or even Half Priced Books (you’d be surprised how fast new books go to used books). Also if you are in a medium sized city or larger, there probably exists a few hardy independent book sellers who would generally be eager to help you get any book you want for a small cut. Finally book publishers often have a direct sale division.

If, like me, you prefer ebooks because of home storage constraints or eye sight or whatever, try Barnes and Noble, Blackwells in the UK, eBooks.com, Smashwords (a great place to self publish your book too), BookBubs (which aggregates lots of different ebook sellers that you may not know about), maybe Kobo but never had a lot of luck with them.

None of these are slam dunk one stop shopping like Amazon, but if Amazon has banned or shadow banned the book, what good is one stop shopping at Amazon? These alternative sites may charge a couple of dollars more than Amazon but your freedom is worth that isn’t it?

Thanks for your attention and God Bless our Republic

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