Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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I'm farsighted and have an astigmatism, so I have to read with glasses, and maybe that's the issue, but I just held my Clara really close to my face and I don't notice any screen door effect.
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I read somwhere how to solve this
1 - factory reset
2 - deactivate wifi for life
3 - upload books with calibreThis will wipe out any content you have, as i understand
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Hi, what do you like about boox nova? I have the Paperwhite (2022) and wondering if there's a better alternative that isn't Amazon.
I do enjoy the page turn animation, does boox have it too? -
You could have made a better choice, I suppose. And some authors/editors do deserve the money.
Pirating is not necessarily resisting. Are you taking money from authors who really really need it? Or are you taking money from rich CEOs who are worsening the environment, future generations, etc?
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Physical vs. DRMed digital is not a dichotomy. Personally for books, I do prefer paper ones - and mostly read in my language on paper. However, pretty much all non-fiction I read is in English, and getting it in paper would cost a fortune (English books are not sold here that much as we're not an English-speaking country, and shipping would likely cost more than the book itself).
As for movies and music - it's all digital DRMless as well, unlike books, there isn't even a functional difference between a file from a tracker vs. a file from a DVD, except that you wouldn't have to throw out a perfectly good disk after ripping.
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I just tried Calibre hoping it would help me get the metadata in my library in order... But maybe I am stupid, but I don't understand the purpose of this software. It apparently can't choose the MTP device as your library, only a folder on your computer? And only push the books onto the reader? I don't get how that's massively different from just copypasting the files into the reader. Is the main point convenient metadata editing?..
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"You only have a license, you don't own them" for ebooks too?
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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.
