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On the Kindle, you can email yourself e-books.
I use it with calibre. Works perfect. Even displays the book covers (no matter where you got them) as lock screen background of the kindle. Can absolutely recommend this!
I wish to track progress across multiple platform without amazon. So far calibre web and kobo ebook readers look like the go to
You should put your requirements in your post.
Also idk about the newer ones but the old ones last forever. You might need to change their battery but that's not too hard. I got a kindle keyboard that's been going strong for over a decade now.
Also kindles work fine with calibre, you just need a different file format. Mine can read PDFs! (I do not reccomend reading PDF scans on a kindle)
Kindle doesn't work with epub which is what majority of ebooks are
It does work with epub now. They changed it not long ago (afaik)
Can confirm it works now (not sure when change happened; pretty sure I’ve been using since early 2022). I regularly use epub on kindle.
They did recently drop mobi (or at least threaten to - they send me an email saying they are going to drop mobi capability after I send one to my kindle).
Kindle supported file types: • .EPUB • .PDF • .RTF • .DOC, .DOCX • .HTML, .HTM • .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP
https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email
I email ePubs to my kindle, I'm told Amazon automatically converts them, I've had 0 issues.
But calibre can convert them anyway.
I always find you with that iconic user name around the Fediverse!
Join me in the emoji shit post club!
Also I just realized my username looks extremely different on desktop vs mobile lmao. I just see the Android version.
Really? How different?
@mojo @protokaiser
You can convert them to azw3 with calibre. It's what I do.