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cbdevidal 12 hours ago

Crap like this is why I 1.) export my Kindle books to plain PDF 2.) use a Nook Simple Touch. They work perfectly well 100% offline and are CHEAP now.

Primarily use two of these for a prepper book cache. (Two is one and one is none.) The battery lasts about a month on low cost chargers, and a pair of 32GB SD cards holds my entire collection. (A redundant pair since two is one.) Whole thing sits in an EMP bag in the bugout bag of my car, so I always have my library everywhere I go.

Exporting to PDF used to be pretty straightforward; the newest encryption is a lot harder to bypass but is still possible:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1q1uza4/successful...

literalAardvark 11 hours ago | parent [-]

PDF is an atrocious format for this though. Why not export to ePub?

cbdevidal 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I do both, actually. But I don’t notice the difference personally.

literalAardvark 8 hours ago | parent [-]

There's not much of one until you need to reflow the book for a different reader