I want to get back into reading, so I’m thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it’s possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.
Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?
I love it especially for multiple languages (I Read English and German books)
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I don’t have a PW, but I’m looking at them. Does Airplane Mode stop you from using any tools, or is it smooth sailing?
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Newish Kindle (basic) user here. Any issue aside from battery life to justify airplane mode always on?
Being able to translate or look stuff up on Wikipedia is amazing for me.
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No it’s not necessary. I’ve been a Kindle user for close to a decade and never bothered.
Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?
I use library genisis. Great for scientific papers and adequate for fiction.
Anna’s archive is a catalogue which goes through multiple databases including libgen, therefore it’s preferable
You can find many e-books on general trackers like 1337x. You should check out anna’s archive. It’s a website which provides access to books from several sources like z-lib and libgen (download, not torrents).
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oceanofpdf also has a lot of direct downloads for ebooks and they’re very good
Give Kobo a look, Amazon isn’t the only name in the game. Kobo lets you connect directly to your library and check out books on the device, I absolutely love mine after having a couple Kindles.
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There are some websites like z-lib that still work. Also, I usually just hunt for books on search engines, sometimes I also find copies on VK.
Yeah, you can sideload pirate ebooks onto a Kindle. There are some restrictions with file formats, most people use Calibre if they run into issues with them. For ebooks I just grab mine from libgen most of the time.
There are some restrictions with file formats
What are they? The only thing I can think of is that pdfs kinda suck.
Kindles only support AZW3 or MOBI. Converting isn’t a huge hassle (thanks Calibre)
I use epub on mine, after downloading it from z-lib using my phone. Then I just send it to Kindle and have never had any issues.
I was thinking about epub support, but apparently they do now but dropped mobi support. I haven’t used a Kindle in awhile so no idea if there are any caveats. Here’s the full list for anyone interested:
Send to Kindle for Web
Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) HTML (.HTML, .HTM) RTF (.RTF) Text (.TXT) JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG) GIF (.GIF) PNG (.PNG) BMP (.BMP) PDF (.PDF) EPUB (.EPUB)Send to Kindle from the Kindle App for iOS and Android Devices
PDF (.PDF) Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) HTML (.HTML, .HTM) RTF (.RTF) Text (.TXT) Images (.JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP) EPUB (.EPUB)Kindle Personal Documents Service
Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) HTML (.HTML, .HTM) RTF (.RTF) Text (.TXT) JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG) GIF (.GIF) PNG (.PNG) BMP (.BMP) PDF (.PDF) EPUB (.EPUB)Send to Kindle Desktop Applications
Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) PDF (.PDF) Text (.TXT) Images (.JPG, .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, .GIF) RTF (.RTF) HTML (.HTML, .HTM) EPUB (.EPUB)I was thinking about epub support, but apparently they do now but dropped mobi support.
I never knew they didn’t support epub.
I’ve found all books I’ve ever looked for on libgen.is
Regarding the sources for books, you’ve gotten a lot of recommendations already. Loading them onto the kindle is super easy. You cannot only transfer via USB, your kindle even gets it’s own mail address you can then just mail your books to and have them converted and transferred by Amazon.
Maybe look into an Onyx Boox instead of a Kindle. It will let you download books straight from the web (like standardebooks.org and Project Gutenberg) without having to side load. Also, you can add the Libby and Overdrive apps to it since it accesses the Google Play store. Also, it accepts all files formats so you don’t have to convert anything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- You can customize it a lot to your own liking and they do something clever with page changing that it seems a lot more responsive.
- Another thing is I used to have to convert epubs to KFX to get nice hyphenation and good typography but on KoReader you seem to be able to customize all those typography things with whatever epub you throw at it.
- Also, I have a local Calibre OPDS endpoint, you can add that in KoReader and download books over wirelessly. WiFi needs to be on when doing that but with a few tweaks you have read only root partiton so Kindle shouldn’t update.
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.
But if you do jailbreak a Kindle, you’ll be able to install third-party apps like KOReader, which bring support for eBooks in formats that aren’t natively supported by the stock Kindle software, such as EPUB and CBZ files
Weird, I’m like 99% sure epub is supported considering it’s all I download on my stock PW.
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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 wile blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I’ll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn’t have internet access.
I’ve been enjoying e-books off of Archive.org (not web.archive.org)
Shoutout to project Gutenberg as well. It’s a massive free archive of books that are in the public domain.
