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I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don't hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don't even use.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My Amazon Kindle books. I figured out way later that I didn't actually own them! How absurd.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can pirate books. Use Calibre and build your library. I have over 2000 books. Doesn't take much storage either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That's what I do. Wanna share some? Maybe we could do a swap of our favorite 10 or something.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And you can still read them on your Kindle, too. You just convert the epubs to the kindle format (using Calibre), then plug your Kindle into your computer. So easy, why would I ever buy a book again?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or even better setup your kindle e-mail address in Calibre and e-mail the books to the personal document cloud. That way the books will sync to all your kindle devices and the kindle app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wow, I didn't know this was possible!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can just send epubs to your kindle.