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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books (www.heise.de)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 7 months ago (15 children)

I've been using raw text files for my books, sent locally over USB, and that's the way it's gonna stay until my reader craps out

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    can't you just load epub with calibre or another sync to? I'm pretty sure that's what I do because that's what I'm doing

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    IMO for personal use "drag and drop into the correct directory" is an infinitely better organisational system than tag based libraries, especially for pirated books. I'm not going to sync my books across 10 different devices since I don't need more than 1 reader, so it doesn't make any sense for me to waste time using tags, let alone fix them for every book I download.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I've tried that in the past, but it doesn't seem to care how the epub is put on it, it always displays epubs horribly

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

    are you doing something to convert to epub from another format? i don't have the issue you're describing when loading epub directly or when converting from mobi with calibre. the format is dynamic unlike PDF, so the font size and page width shouldn't be fixed like that. it should look and behave pretty much like kindle mobi or your text files

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    There's not really any advantage of using txt files over open standard drm-free epubs. You can still generate them yourself using txt editors or publishing software, you can still load them over USB. But epubs give you quality of life features on eReaders like title pages, table of contents, chapter headers, formatting markers like bold and italics.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    My reader formats epubs really terribly, the text is almost always way too small, and requires some grotesque horizontal scrolling for most books.

    On the other hand .txt just works, and handles resizing just fine

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