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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books (www.heise.de)
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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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