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E-Books, best places to get them?
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Anna's Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.
Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone's interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.
Neat, my kindle is in airplane mode 100% of the time too... I never knew you could jailbreak, reading about it now.
Edit: and I'm on 5.14.2 guess I'm going to jailbreak. Amazing, thank you!
is there any advantage to jailbreak when i already got no ads and i'm 100% of the time on airplane mode? genuine question, not judging :o
I didn't have ads either but being able to use KoReader is a good enough motivation for me.
Overall there are a lot of steps to it, if you're comfortable with your current setup it's not worth the hassle/time.
thank you!
This is the bit I read that sold me on it.
Weird, I'm like 99% sure epub is supported considering it's all I download on my stock PW.
Amazon actually deprecated the MOBI standard on there and switched to EPUB.
I wonder when they did that. I've never updated my kindle, it's never even been on the internet so I'm stuck in 2021/2022.
Either way I have KOreader now and it's amazing. Just reading that I can connect it to the internet for more features and reading how to do that while blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I'll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn't have internet access.
I have the same doubt. I had a old first gen pw jailbroken. Recently got 10th gen basic. Not jailbroken yet
Ah, so a kindle needs to be jailbroken/rooted for sideloading books.
Also, this is the third mention of turning on airplane mode. Is this to stop Amazon from doing something to the Kindle?
Kindle jailbreaking isn't strictly required, especially if all you want to do is sideload books. It's more about if you want homebrew, other customisation options or you just wanna get rid of ads without paying.
The airplane mode is because Amazon has a habit of updating the kindle without your permission.
I got ads removed on mine by asking chat support. The only caveat is it needs to be registered to an account. If you get a patient employee and ask kindly that the ads are not appropriate for children, it usually works.
Right... Yeah, I would like to get rid of the ads. It sounds absurd that I pay for the device but then have to pay again to get rid of ads.
Amazon's logic is you paid a subsidized/cheaper price that is offset by included ads. You can buy it without ads (more expensive, obviously) from the start.
I don’t turn airplane mode on and I haven’t jailbroken it. I download all my books from Anna’s archive on my phone and then send them to my kindle email address. The books appear on my kindle in seconds. No DRM issues. I have the oasis because I’m a big reader and I highly recommend it.
Not necessarily, Calibre makes this easy
They are making the OS more and more convoluted for loading your own books.
Currently I torrent books (legally of course) and then send the e-pub book to my kindle through the Kindle app. works a treat.
now I just have to find the attention span to read a book
As others have said – nope. You can get a cheap enough Kindle without ads (and yes, it is absurd that there's an ad-version in the first place), and sideloading is a piece of piss. Either use Calibre or set up a Kindle email address. I mostly do the latter these days. The only downside (and the main upside to using KoReader, I would think) is that you don't get the full range of typography options sending over EPUBs this way – you would have to do a KFX conversation first (again possible with Calibre, but a bit of faff).