| ▲ | dominotw 2 days ago |
| what you mean by locking down? your epub is your epub . i read third party epubs on kindle all the time. i am not sure if i am missing something here dont understand the downvotes. I've read third party books on kindle for decades with no issues. |
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| ▲ | JoeBOFH 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Amazon is making it harder and harder to copy third party books onto the devices. |
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| ▲ | dominotw 2 days ago | parent [-] | | by doing what? i do it all that time. did one this morning. | | |
| ▲ | skydhash 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I gifted my sister my kindle this morning (it was unused for years) after loaded it with azw3 files converted from epub using calibre. The other options is to send epub via email. But I told her to never put it out of airplane mode and get it on WiFi because amazon has deleted my "documents" (that's what they called sideloaded books) before. I own two kobos, a libra for fiction and an ellipsa for tech books and textbooks. Both have koreader on. | | |
| ▲ | allannienhuis 2 days ago | parent [-] | | using https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle it's trivial. I just bought the Greg Bear humble bundle (27 epub books), dragged all of them in one step, clicked the submit button and that was it. Books showed up on my paperwhite kindle in a moment. Couldn't have been easier. Books sent that way don't disappear from your device as far as I can tell - I've done similar large batch uploads for ages, and they're all still in my library, and available on all of my devices. | | |
| ▲ | Gud 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Why should Amazon be involved at all? Why should they know my reading habits? | | |
| ▲ | allannienhuis 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure, those are fair questions, but they've got nothing to do with the comment I was responding to, which was about the problems with reading (originally) epub books on a kindle. | | |
| ▲ | Gud 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It sounds like the comment you replied to is aware of that, but prefer his (sisters) kindle to remain functional with USB transfer, hence airplane mode to prevent any unwanted software updates. |
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| ▲ | kubik369 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > i read third party epubs on kindle all the time. No, you do not. Kindle has never and, as far as I am aware, to this day, does not support epubs. The only way to read epubs on your Kindle is to convert them either by Amazon's Send to Kindle service or through software like Calibre. |
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| ▲ | ssl-3 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It has the appearance of working like this: 1. Epub of a book exists on a computer
2. User takes simple action to read that book on a Kindle device
3. ???
4. User succeeds at reading that same book
When step 3 is basically invisible, "reading an epub on a kindle" seems like a rational way to view things.Like when Github invisibly renders Markdown into HTML for display in my browser: It seems rational to say that I'm reading a Markdown document. Or when I print that same HTML onto paper and read it. I'm not reading the HTML nor the Postscript intermediates: I'm still reading a Markdown document. | |
| ▲ | dominotw 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | dont care about all that. ppl are really reaching here by moving goalposts . |
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| ▲ | themadturk 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's good that it works for you. Before unloading my Kindle, I was getting over 50% failures when side loading books via Send To Kindle. These were all ePubs that have subsequently worked fine on Kobo. That was completely unacceptable, and I was uncomfortable with the amount of control Amazon was exerting over the platform. I don't hate Amazon, but I was not willing any longer to give them knowledge and control over my reading. |
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| ▲ | NuclearPM 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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