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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This. I've personally found it easiest to use Calibre to strip DRM & get things tidy, then use Audiobookshelf to manage both my ebooks and audiobooks

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does ebooks too?

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yep! Here's an ebook I have hosted through Audiobookshelf, reading it over the Internet using my domain & reverse proxy.

(The top bar is shown/hidden when you tap the screen, so it's not always in the way like this)