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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.