Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
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Thanks for the heads-up. I'm downloading all of mine and finally making a Calibre library.
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Can I root my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite?
That's what I'm looking into, too. I'm finding info about a Branch Delay, a WinterBreak, and a LanguageBreak. I don't know which one to try.
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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?
Calibre is open-source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
So if it had telemetry, we would have heard about it.
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Can I root my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite?
Check the firmware version.
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Prefix_Index
Above is a fair amount of documentation.https://www.epubor.com/how-to-jailbreak-kindle-paperwhite.html
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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.
I'm near sighted with astigmatism. Who knows honestly. I'm sure there is some reason behind why it's seems to bother some people and otberes can barely notice it.
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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).
Yeah it seems more like they decided that maintaining that specific feature isn’t worth it because not enough users are using it. It sucks, but that’s just how it goes with closed hardware and software ecosystems.
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Calibre is open-source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
So if it had telemetry, we would have heard about it.
No I mean, now that I got caliber they block book downloads.
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Can I root my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite?
Probably no, as its firmware auto-updates and they closed the jailbreak a year or two ago. But who knows, put it in airplane mode and check it.
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I’m sad that the Kindle Oasis doesn’t get a new model. Mine has served me well for the past few years, but it’s starting to show its age.
I felt the same about my Voyage, but I've resolved to move to kobo once it bites the dust.
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did that a couple of days ago thankfully. goodbye amazon, you were never loved.
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That's why I don't download or purchase ebooks from Amazon, but only get them from places I can download a non-DRM'd copy. I'm not looking to break any laws, but if I pay for it, I want to be able to have it whenever I want even when the Internet is down. Recently a buddy gave me his old blu-ray juke box, and now I'm doing the same thing with my favorite movies as well. And building a home lab. It's finally time I decreased (not completely ended) my reliance on the cloud, given the shit show my nation collectively voted for.
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I felt the same about my Voyage, but I've resolved to move to kobo once it bites the dust.
I jumped from the Voyage to the Paperwhite when they switched to USB-C and added a warmth slider for the screen. It’s really nice, especially with an origami case (even if that case isn’t as nice as the origami case for the Voyage).
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That's why I don't download or purchase ebooks from Amazon, but only get them from places I can download a non-DRM'd copy. I'm not looking to break any laws, but if I pay for it, I want to be able to have it whenever I want even when the Internet is down. Recently a buddy gave me his old blu-ray juke box, and now I'm doing the same thing with my favorite movies as well. And building a home lab. It's finally time I decreased (not completely ended) my reliance on the cloud, given the shit show my nation collectively voted for.
Holy cow i just looked up a blue ray "jukebox" used the sony 400 disc one is like $900. That's fucking crazy.
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Can I root my 10 year old Kindle Paperwhite?
My 4th gen doesnt need it. I've got two D01100 models. I can literally plug them into my phone and copy paste books onto them. I google the book i want, download to my phone and just paste it into my kindke.
Just don't attach an account to it and keep it on airplane mode. They can't stop anything. I've even got manga on it but that took a converter program on my laptop to make the manga into an epub file.
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Iquit on Kindle a few years ago. The publicationsI read, like Asimov’s Sci Fi, no longer publish via Kindle. I use Book Funnel, Kobo, Pocket Book and store books on my desktop’s drive.
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I jumped from the Voyage to the Paperwhite when they switched to USB-C and added a warmth slider for the screen. It’s really nice, especially with an origami case (even if that case isn’t as nice as the origami case for the Voyage).
A physical (or physical-ish) button is pretty much my main driver. I also like the little bit more freedom I'd have with a kobo.
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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?..
It's a library manager, like iTunes, or Plex for movies, Google Photos/Picasa for photos/images . You pick a spot for you library locally, and then your local lib is a jump off point to load in on to any reader device you want. It will understand what device you are pushing it to, and automagically convert it to supported file-types.
The big difference with just copy-pasting is that you have a full library somewhere locally, and you can pick and choose what you load up on your reader. For me and maybe you, those lists are pretty close to identical, but what if you have a very large collection? And what if i just had to RMA my Libra? One click and a couple minutes after i receive my replacement, all of my books and reading progress will be synced back. If you had put your lib on the device itself, you would have had to rebuild it from scratch.
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That's why I don't download or purchase ebooks from Amazon, but only get them from places I can download a non-DRM'd copy. I'm not looking to break any laws, but if I pay for it, I want to be able to have it whenever I want even when the Internet is down. Recently a buddy gave me his old blu-ray juke box, and now I'm doing the same thing with my favorite movies as well. And building a home lab. It's finally time I decreased (not completely ended) my reliance on the cloud, given the shit show my nation collectively voted for.
I pirate everything. Because fuck you that's why.
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A physical (or physical-ish) button is pretty much my main driver. I also like the little bit more freedom I'd have with a kobo.
Yeah, I do wish they hadn’t killed the pressure button. But I tend to swipe anyway.
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This is why you never connect your kindle to the internet. Calibre forever
This doesn't track.
To pull my books into calibre, I need to first download them onto the Kindle, which requires wifi.
