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?

  • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • 520@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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.

    • skankhunt42@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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!

    • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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

      • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • skankhunt42@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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

          • skankhunt42@lemmy.caEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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.