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?
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Not exactly piracy, but if the book in question is public domain, my favorite site is Standard eBooks! Very high quality books, with proper formatting and translations.
Nice link. Would probably be one of my first places I look for any classic literature. Though it seems fairly limited from just the few searches I did
Yep, that’s the biggest downside. I look here first, and if nothing, go elsewhere. What it does have is excellent though.
Great resource. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe look into an Onyx Boox instead of a Kindle. It will let you download books straight from the web (like standardebooks.org and Project Gutenberg) without having to side load. Also, you can add the Libby and Overdrive apps to it since it accesses the Google Play store. Also, it accepts all files formats so you don’t have to convert anything.
You can find many e-books on general trackers like 1337x. You should check out anna’s archive. It’s a website which provides access to books from several sources like z-lib and libgen (download, not torrents).
Anna’s Archive. As a fellow Kindle PW user, don’t buy(that is if you can call paying for DRMed ebooks buying) anything on Amazon. Use airplane mode and never turn it off.
Newish Kindle (basic) user here. Any issue aside from battery life to justify airplane mode always on?
Being able to translate or look stuff up on Wikipedia is amazing for me.
No it’s not necessary. I’ve been a Kindle user for close to a decade and never bothered.
Because fuck Amazon. /s
I’m joking but additional battery life and shutting off telemetry outweighs Wikipedia lookup, that is of course to me. I also bought with-ads version of it so permanent airplane mode keeps it away. (I know I can kinda get them removed by asking Amazon)
oceanofpdf also has a lot of direct downloads for ebooks and they’re very good
I’ve been enjoying e-books off of Archive.org (not web.archive.org)
Give Kobo a look, Amazon isn’t the only name in the game. Kobo lets you connect directly to your library and check out books on the device, I absolutely love mine after having a couple Kindles.
Kobo also has a web browser that supports downloading. Just saying
Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?
I use library genisis. Great for scientific papers and adequate for fiction.
Anna’s archive is a catalogue which goes through multiple databases including libgen, therefore it’s preferable
Personally I would recommend a Remarkable. It’s more expensive but soooo much more useful with a pen.
You can load books onto a Kindle, but format conversion is required and the results are not always pretty.
The remarkable is so dreamy
It really is. Shit, I don’t fawn over tech purchases, but the remarkable is so damn useful.
Pretty easy to homebrew on too, no jailbreak required. I’m tempted to make a libgen app for it.
Yeah and they’re constantly adding phenomenal user requested features in their updates (even for the original kickstarter device that I have). A libgen app would be convenient!
I’m still learning to code for the thing, so let’s see how it goes!
Lib gen https://libgen.li/
I love it especially for multiple languages (I Read English and German books)
Anna’s Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.
Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone’s interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.
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
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
Amazon actually deprecated the MOBI standard on there and switched to EPUB.
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 wile blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I’ll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn’t have internet access.
Weird, I’m like 99% sure epub is supported considering it’s all I download on my stock PW.
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.
thank you!
Neat, my kindle is in airplane mode 100% of the time too… I never knew you could jailbreak, reading about it now.
Edit: and I’m on 5.14.2 guess I’m going to jailbreak. Amazing, thank you!
Ah, so a kindle needs to be jailbroken/rooted for sideloading books.
Also, this is the third mention of turning on airplane mode. Is this to stop Amazon from doing something to the Kindle?
Kindle jailbreaking isn’t strictly required, especially if all you want to do is sideload books. It’s more about if you want homebrew, other customisation options or you just wanna get rid of ads without paying.
The airplane mode is because Amazon has a habit of updating the kindle without your permission.
Right… Yeah, I would like to get rid of the ads. It sounds absurd that I pay for the device but then have to pay again to get rid of ads.
Amazon’s logic is you paid a subsidized/cheaper price that is offset by included ads. You can buy it without ads (more expensive, obviously) from the start.
There are some websites like z-lib that still work. Also, I usually just hunt for books on search engines, sometimes I also find copies on VK.
I’ve found all books I’ve ever looked for on libgen.is
