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F**k Amazon, part 2
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this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?
I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite that I love. Lately it has become very sluggish but still works and I have only bought books for it at Amazon. I'd love to correct that discrepancy.
When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.
Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.
As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.
I've done Libby with the library but I read so slowly that they take it away before I'm done.
Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?
Oh, yes. I'm most cases, really old books.
I've found the quality on Gutenberg varies massively - since an epub is basically a zipped html file, I've had plenty that are just barely-converted text files, with problems like incorrect character encoding and that everything's one big chapter.
I Personally use kobo but i have used Thalia or Hugendubel in the past aa well. I think you can use nearly every bookstore and transfer them with calibre. But sometimes you'll get a asc(?) file instead of a epub and then use some software to "convert" it and maybe remove the drm
I get mine from an IRC channel that has basically everything imaginable
Torrents and shit are cool and all, but hopping onto IRC and saying 'Hobbit, Tolkien" and being sent 100 download links is, imo, the best
Run it through Calibre and boom, you've got a cheap and quality e-reader with free books
Woah. Could you a link to the IRC channel?
I went to get it after leaving the comment and am devastated to remember that I had it saved in a text file that I lost. I'll try to remember to dig through my history to find it, but I do know I found it by basic web search a few years back and that there are many of them in existence, so it shouldn't be hard to find one of your own if I forget
Same place you get most free media from: your favorite torrent tracker of choice.