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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] 76 points 11 months ago (20 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Amazon actually deprecated the MOBI standard on there and switched to EPUB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 while blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I'll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn't have internet access.

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