Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

[deadninja@lemmy.world]

I'm so in love with Anna.....

[socphoenix@midwest.social]

I use calibre for my kindle, but kavita for web reading on any of my devices.

The calibre web server kept claiming its downloads to my device were corrupted and would just never open books. Kavita just sends the books page as a web page which gets rid of that particular issue

[outlierblue@lemmy.ca]

Actually own it.

[st3ph3n@midwest.social]

This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.

[st3ph3n@midwest.social]

Run software they don't approve of. Like alternate reading apps that don't need you to pipe everything through an Amazon account, read formats they don't support, etc.

[unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Please pass it forward: all Kindles can now be jailbroken

[vividspecter@lemm.ee]

There's also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.

[illness@infosec.pub]

Hi. Thank you for the info.

I am looking for a new e-reader. Is there any reason why I should buy a Kindle and jailbreak it rather than get a PineNote, SuperNote, Nook device, Boox device, or a Kobo Libra?

Or would you recommend something else?

[paradox@lemdro.id]

Already been doing this, but I think this will finally light the fire under my ass to move to a boox device for all my reading
I've got the big boox, which I use for sheet music, and quite like it, so the smaller ones are no brainers

[evilbit@lemmy.world]

FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.

I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.

[rolder@reddthat.com]

My Kobo e-reader is pretty nice and takes any ol e-pub file just fine. And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files. Just sayin

[accideath@lemmy.world]

What can I do with a jailbroken kindle that makes it worth doing instead of just using calibre?

[spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works]

It's not just Amazon. Libraries (and Libby, the app they use) are also making it difficult to do anything but read in a browser or use Kindle.

[ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world]

Better Calibre integration.

Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

If this doesn't help physical book sales, nothing will.

[casmael@lemm.ee]

Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly

[saltysalamander@fedia.io]

I'll continue pirating, thanks.

[robotzap10000@feddit.nl]

I was looking at the PineNote myself, but they stopped selling the developer version due to low demand. I'm afraid that it won't be back until those who do own it finish writing the software for it.

[atda@lemmy.world]

I tend to bounce around software. I ran into it at random researching docker containers and just kind of stuck with it. I've got a habit of trying to containerize everything nowadays haha

[land@lemmy.ml]

This is the way.