Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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• Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My Kobo e-reader is pretty nice and takes any ol e-pub file just fine. And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files. Just sayin

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  • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Calibre, a third party software for managing ebooks, has a plugin to crack Kindle files.

    Unfortunately currently broken for the latest version of Kindle for PC, which switched to a different encryption scheme. It also uses KFX file format that nobody likes, which fortunately can be converted to EPUB with another plugin, but de-DRMing doesn’t seem to work right now.

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• Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Already been doing this, but I think this will finally light the fire under my ass to move to a boox device for all my reading I’ve got the big boox, which I use for sheet music, and quite like it, so the smaller ones are no brainers

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  • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.

    I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.

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• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please pass out forward: all Kindles can now be jailbroken

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What can I do with a jailbroken kindle that makes it worth doing instead of just using calibre?

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    • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I switched from the default reader to koreader, and now I have dark mode (mine is probably about 8 years old and did not originally have this feature). Koreader has so many features and qol improvements compared to the default Kindle experience.

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    • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Better reader, PDFs with reflow.

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    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Better Calibre integration.

      Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.

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• st3ph3n@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.

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• DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m so in love with Anna…

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• singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that’s been around for twenty fiveish years.

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly 🤔

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    • BirdObserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably some kind of plugin or script to run… i forget the specifics because literally grab the kindle version, then search z-library.

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  • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IIRC it’s not as feature complete as the fat client

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  • somenonewho@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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• ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s fucked.

  So anyway self hosting Kavita to read everything in my browser is hella convenient.

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  • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dropping a link for the lazy/myself for later

    www.kavitareader.com

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  • riot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting, I’d never heard of Kavita, so have just been using Calibre all these years. Did you start out on Kavita, or did you move from Calibre, or another software?

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    • ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I tend to bounce around software. I ran into it at random researching docker containers and just kind of stuck with it. I’ve got a habit of trying to containerize everything nowadays haha

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    • socphoenix@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use calibre for my kindle, but kavita for web reading on any of my devices.

      The calibre web server kept claiming its downloads to my device were corrupted and would just never open books. Kavita just sends the books page as a web page which gets rid of that particular issue

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I never once purchased a book from Amazon even though I have a Kindle.

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  • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll be done with audible the moment I stop being able to liberate and archive what I pay for.

    Until then, they’re helping me build by audiobookshelf

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New kindle jailbreak you say?

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

      Supposedly works on all Kindles, I haven’t actually done a deep dive yet, just have it bookmarked since yesterday.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Joke’s on them, I get all my books from Z-Library anyhow.

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have a few books I bought, but even then, I grab from z-library. More portable and no DRM.

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