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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued "Download and Transfer via USB" feature to archive your Kindle library.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 days ago (3 children)

thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that's been around for twenty fiveish years.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

I love Calibre. I've recently broken my E-Reader (Tolino) but all my books are backed up on Calibre so the only loss is the hardware (still sad but not as annoying)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's also calibre-web for a self-hosted option with a web interface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IIRC it’s not as feature complete as the fat client

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This. I've personally found it easiest to use Calibre to strip DRM & get things tidy, then use Audiobookshelf to manage both my ebooks and audiobooks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does ebooks too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yep! Here's an ebook I have hosted through Audiobookshelf, reading it over the Internet using my domain & reverse proxy.

(The top bar is shown/hidden when you tap the screen, so it's not always in the way like this)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly 🤔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’ll break saving books you bought from Amazon, but you’ll still be able to send books you got from other places to it from Calibre. Fortunately barely any of my ebooks on my kindle are from Amazon (though my next ereader isn’t going to be a kindle, that’s for sure).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Cool guess I’ll download anything I bought from Amazon before the cutoff then it’s been ages and I can’t remember what’s there o7

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Probably some kind of plugin or script to run... i forget the specifics because literally grab the kindle version, then search z-library.