Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YSK, finding and installing mobi files are easy. Also, keeping your Kindle in airplane mode prevents ads. Fuck Amazon. Calibre is a great open source piece of software.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m glad you mentioned airplane mode. I noticed something interesting about my Kindle after I set up a Pi Hole on my home network. The kindle would constantly try to connect to the Amazon mothership. Because the Pi Hole was blocking it, it would try it over and over again and this quickly depleted the batteries (maybe trying to boost it’s WiFi signal? I’m not sure). Putting it into Airplane mode helps preserve battery life noticeably, back to what it was before I installed the Pi Hole.
TinyShonk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It drains battery faster even if it’s not blocked too, kind of annoying.