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F**k Amazon, part 2 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Don't throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don't let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite that I love. Lately it has become very sluggish but still works and I have only bought books for it at Amazon. I'd love to correct that discrepancy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

BAEN sells eBooks directly.
Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.

When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.

Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.

As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I've found the quality on Gutenberg varies massively - since an epub is basically a zipped html file, I've had plenty that are just barely-converted text files, with problems like incorrect character encoding and that everything's one big chapter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've done Libby with the library but I read so slowly that they take it away before I'm done.

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Oh, yes. I'm most cases, really old books.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I get mine from an IRC channel that has basically everything imaginable

Torrents and shit are cool and all, but hopping onto IRC and saying 'Hobbit, Tolkien" and being sent 100 download links is, imo, the best

Run it through Calibre and boom, you've got a cheap and quality e-reader with free books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Woah. Could you a link to the IRC channel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I went to get it after leaving the comment and am devastated to remember that I had it saved in a text file that I lost. I'll try to remember to dig through my history to find it, but I do know I found it by basic web search a few years back and that there are many of them in existence, so it shouldn't be hard to find one of your own if I forget

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I Personally use kobo but i have used Thalia or Hugendubel in the past aa well. I think you can use nearly every bookstore and transfer them with calibre. But sometimes you'll get a asc(?) file instead of a epub and then use some software to "convert" it and maybe remove the drm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Same place you get most free media from: your favorite torrent tracker of choice.