Over at Make: Online, Phil Torrone provides a step-by-step for reading 1984 on your Kindle without fear of having Amazon sneak onto your device and zap it down the memory hole while you sleep.
Once you arrive in Australia stop by this site and download a copy of 1984. Read the warning first:
Under Australian copyright laws, copyright in literary works of authors, who died before 1955, has expired. These works are now within the ‘public domain’ in Australia and this is why the University is able to reproduce such works on this site. HOWEVER, works may remain copyrighted in other countries. If copyright in the work still subsists in the country from which you are accessing this website, it will be illegal for you to download the work. It is your responsibility to check the applicable copyright laws in your country. In particular, the works of George Orwell are still under copyright in the United States and the European Union, and therefore users in those countries should not download these works.
Don’t worry – you’re in Australia, they’re totally chill down under.
How-To: Read George Orwell’s 1984 on your Kindle
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