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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books (www.heise.de)
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[–] async_amuro@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Got my wife a Kobo for her birthday to replace her aging Kindle. She’s bought 1 book so far and gonna look at the Library integration.

Anyone got any tips for ways to use the Kobo? For example I have Calibre on my Mac and have used that to copy books I’ve “acquired” for her, is there any benefit in self hosting Calibre? Is it possible to get her Kindle books on the Kobo or is the DRM a nightmare nowadays?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it possible to get her Kindle books on the Kobo or is the DRM a nightmare nowadays?

Calibre has a plugin for that: DeDRM

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

does it still work? even when I used it last you had to do some janky shit like download a specific version of kindle pc app and use that to download the book for the first time or the book would be downloaded with newer drm and stuck that way forever, and get the file from the old kindle pc app into dedrm

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't used it in a few years, I use a certain anonymous rodent to get my books now.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

If it doesn't just download copies from libgen you've already paid once.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

If she still has access to her Kindle account, you might be able to get the Account Key and enter that into Calibre to remove the DRM.

https://blog.ssb-tech.net/posts/removing-amazon-drm/

[–] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you can interface with calibre web via opds from eBook readers. basically you can browse and download books in your calibre server. I use koreader to do it. as for previous books she's interested in I'd just look for them in the electronic library

[–] Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You got any more specific info on how to do this? I spun up my caliber web container on my home server, but once I realized you can’t download books over the wifi, you still had to connect to a PC, I stopped hosting it.

What ebook readers are capable of this magic?

[–] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

koreader is an android app, for e-book readers based on android.

https://koreader.rocks/

from what I've read it can be installed on the kobo (may need root)

here's a picture of how to set up koreader

https://wotaku.wiki/guides/manga/opds

the only thing to mind is that the opds address is not the calibre web one but <calibre address>/opds if I'm not wrong.

Also my calibre web does have a download button for the ebooks so if there is a browser on the kobo you should be able to download them. Are you using "calibre web" or "calibre" web?

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web