Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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I upload books with Calibre and never had to reset anything. It’s great.
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I have a kindle, nut i never buy my books at Amazon. I just but them elsewhere, de-DRM then on calibration and copy them in the kindle. Not as comfortable, but okay for.me.
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You mixed up step 2, it's supposed to be "Install KoReader".
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It's pretty easy to jailbreak a Kindle and block firmware updates. But the fact that it is necessary in the first place sucks
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You can also get ebooks from the library
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Some libraries offer large sections of the O'reilly Safari Bookshelf, a collection of educational tech books.
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I literally just installed caliber recently. Are they following my every move or something? Trying desperately to prevent other "near techky" people from leaving the market place?
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To be quite honest I never allowed my Kindle or my Kobo to go online and the experience is not that different. The build quality on the Kindle is a bit better superior and I might well go back. Calibre is the real hero of the story IMO.
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It's like iTunes, but for books.
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That's interesting. What kind of massage are you talking about here?
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That barely tells me anything because I could never afford Apple tech
But from what I read, Apple devices genuinely need an external piece of software to even upload anything there rather than you just copypasting the files, so idk how fair of a comparison it is. -
At least install KoReader before they find a way to firmware-lock the device.
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My library only offers ebooks via CloudLibrary, which doesn’t support e-readers. You have to read everything in their mobile app which scrolls instead of turning pages. It’s like someone custom built an app to be horrible for reading books in bed.
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Ya good point.
Seems like I'm doing it backwards lol
Giving money to Amazon for the hardware and then stealing from the authors.
I should do some more research before buying my next ebook reader.
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Using calibre to just upload books directly.
I'll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.
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Yeah, Calibre is the way to go. KoReader is basically custom built for Calibre, and includes things (missing from the base kindle firmware) like native metadata retrieval.
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The article literally says you will still be able to push books via Calibre etc, but won't be able to download books into Kindle from PC.
Example:
If you don't have a WiFi at home, there is an option to connect Kindle via USB to your ethernet connected PC and download books from Amazon that way.And this option is going away, as most people have WiFi.
Anywho, fuck Amazon (for other things, but not this one).
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Whenever you want to buy a book, pirate it, then donate the amount equivalent to the purchase price directly to the authors. Bypass the middleman.
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Pirate the books, then donate the purchase price directly to the authors to bypass the middleman.
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Do the non-kindle e-readers link to Libby? I may eventually try to get my wife and I off our kindles and she uses that when she can.
