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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books (www.heise.de)
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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Got my wife a Kobo for her birthday to replace her aging Kindle. She’s bought 1 book so far and gonna look at the Library integration.

Anyone got any tips for ways to use the Kobo? For example I have Calibre on my Mac and have used that to copy books I’ve “acquired” for her, is there any benefit in self hosting Calibre? Is it possible to get her Kindle books on the Kobo or is the DRM a nightmare nowadays?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Is it possible to get her Kindle books on the Kobo or is the DRM a nightmare nowadays?

    Calibre has a plugin for that: DeDRM

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    does it still work? even when I used it last you had to do some janky shit like download a specific version of kindle pc app and use that to download the book for the first time or the book would be downloaded with newer drm and stuck that way forever, and get the file from the old kindle pc app into dedrm

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    you can interface with calibre web via opds from eBook readers. basically you can browse and download books in your calibre server. I use koreader to do it. as for previous books she's interested in I'd just look for them in the electronic library

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    You got any more specific info on how to do this? I spun up my caliber web container on my home server, but once I realized you can’t download books over the wifi, you still had to connect to a PC, I stopped hosting it.

    What ebook readers are capable of this magic?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Any Kobo can install KOReader with a minor firmware update (that only needs to be done once). There’s instructions here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices It supports OPDS out of the box (though IMO is a little unintuitive to use)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    koreader is an android app, for e-book readers based on android.

    https://koreader.rocks/

    from what I've read it can be installed on the kobo (may need root)

    here's a picture of how to set up koreader

    https://wotaku.wiki/guides/manga/opds

    the only thing to mind is that the opds address is not the calibre web one but <calibre address>/opds if I'm not wrong.

    Also my calibre web does have a download button for the ebooks so if there is a browser on the kobo you should be able to download them. Are you using "calibre web" or "calibre" web?

    https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Ive been converting some pdfs to epub for the kobo and that has worked great. Its not perfect but gives a better experience than pdf. Ive also put some solo card game rules on there so a deck of cards and the kobo gives another fun on the go activity.

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