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E-Books, best places to get them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[-] ex_06@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

is there any advantage to jailbreak when i already got no ads and i'm 100% of the time on airplane mode? genuine question, not judging :o

[-] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 19 points 11 months ago

I didn't have ads either but being able to use KoReader is a good enough motivation for me.

You can customize it a lot to your own liking and they do something clever with page changing that it seems a lot more responsive.
Another thing is I used to have to convert epubs to KFX to get nice hyphenation and good typography but on KoReader you seem to be able to customize all those typography things with whatever epub you throw at it.
Also, I have a local Calibre OPDS endpoint, you can add that in KoReader and download books over wirelessly. WiFi needs to be on when doing that but with a few tweaks you have read only root partiton so Kindle shouldn't update.

Overall there are a lot of steps to it, if you're comfortable with your current setup it's not worth the hassle/time.

[-] ex_06@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

thank you!

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

This is the bit I read that sold me on it.

But if you do jailbreak a Kindle, you’ll be able to install third-party apps like KOReader, which bring support for eBooks in formats that aren’t natively supported by the stock Kindle software, such as EPUB and CBZ files

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Weird, I'm like 99% sure epub is supported considering it's all I download on my stock PW.

[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Partially, at least for me. Custom fonts won't work with EPUB. Overall experience is just (marginally) better with converted .azw files.

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Amazon actually deprecated the MOBI standard on there and switched to EPUB.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wonder when they did that. I've never updated my kindle, it's never even been on the internet so I'm stuck in 2021/2022.

Either way I have KOreader now and it's amazing. Just reading that I can connect it to the internet for more features and reading how to do that while blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I'll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn't have internet access.