On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.
Please pass out forward: all Kindles can now be jailbroken
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that’s been around for twenty fiveish years.
somenonewho@feddit.org 1 month ago
I love Calibre. I’ve recently broken my E-Reader (Tolino) but all my books are backed up on Calibre so the only loss is the hardware (still sad but not as annoying)
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There’s also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IIRC it’s not as feature complete as the fat client
casmael@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly 🤔
BirdObserver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’ll break saving books you bought from Amazon, but you’ll still be able to send books you got from other places to it from Calibre. Fortunately barely any of my ebooks on my kindle are from Amazon (though my next ereader isn’t going to be a kindle, that’s for sure).
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Probably some kind of plugin or script to run… i forget the specifics because literally grab the kindle version, then search z-library.