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E-Books, best places to get them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, just wanna shout out to your local library. Overdrive (Libby app) is amazing, but only works on kindles in the USA. Double check if kindle supports overdrive in your country and if it doesn't you may want to get a Kobo or a third party e-reader instead.

Either that or you can use DeDRM to strip the adobe digital editions drms to keep the library books after they expire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Overdrive will work on any device that can install the app. No one in my family has a Kindle, but we all use Overdrive.

Edit: I misunderstood, didn't I?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Libby works on any Android and iOS device, so if you consider those E-Reader then no you didn't miss understand.

However on proprietary E-Readers like Kobos and Kindles, Overdrive needs to be implemented by the manufacturer . It's not an issue for Kobo, as Overdrive is baked in, but on Kindle it only works with the USA's Library system if I understand it correctly (not from USA).

With that said since Overdrive relies on Adobe Digital editions it's not the end of the world since you can remove the DRM and use calibre to cover the ePub to Mobi then move it onto a Kindle.

But getting the right device makes it less of a hassle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kindles allow loading epubs nowadays btw. You can even add epubs from one of their websites. I like to sideload mine to get features that kindle epubs have that sideloaded ones don't, like scrolling the text instead of having to flip pages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Still not possible to read adobe DRM epub on kindle as of yet. So you still need to strip the DRM first