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Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] somenonewho@feddit.org 19 points 2 weeks 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)

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks 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

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It does ebooks too?

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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)

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks 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 🤔

[–] BirdObserver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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).

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks 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

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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