They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.
    • braxy29@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      this is also why i started buying physical books and using my local public library again.

      • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        My local library allows borrowing ebooks. It’s incredibly useful. I own two kindles and haven’t spent a dime at Amazon for ebooks. I do buy physical books now and then from there, but only if I really need it and can’t find elsewhere.

          • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            It expires after two weeks. You can extend, just like borrowing a physical copy. Or return early, in which case it expires upon return.

            • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2 months

              I mean, yeah, sure, I guess that’s a decent solutions in terms of modern IP shit.

              But like, we all know you’re not returning anything and if you wanted, you could also copy it for yourself.

              I just dislike how it feels like when it was actually books, they had actual reasons to everything. There’s a queue because there’s limited copies. You need to return it and if you’re late there’s a fee, because it’s from other people’s time, etc. Nowadays that all feels like larping just to protect large companies IP’s essentially. Because digital copies don’t actually get returned.

              Like when I was a kid I would’ve never thought a librarian would say “you’re not allowed to read that anymore”. Or that I couldn’t copy a thing down at home from one of their books. But now as your tokens to ebooks expire, it kinda does feel like that.

                • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1 month

                  I’m not saying they’re not, or that the librarians are any more capitalist than they were in the 90’s. I’m just saying it feels like they are.

  • RiQuY@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 months

    So the product lineup is now called “Kindle Paperweight” instead?

  • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    lol i already jailbroke my 2012 paperwhite and intstalled Koreader on it so I can sync it with my calibre epub library over wifi

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      2 months

      It’s a pity Calibre to date refuses to be refactored into a self-hosted service.

      The core logic should be portable, with the app just being an interface to it, but no, the entire project is so much spaghetti it would feed the entire boot for over a year… such a shame.

      • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        I switched. Kavita is the new hotness.

        I found it for comics, but realized it handled books as well as Caliber does, in a modern interface with OPDS support.

        • fonix232@fedia.io
          2 months

          I tried Kavita and immediately recoiled at the fact that basic features like progress sync or metadata matching are behind a paywall - literally features that don’t cost the developers anything, while having open, active bug reports going back a year on these “premium” features.

          All while licensing the code under GPLv3…

          • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1 month

            Progress sync works fine for me in KOReader with OPDS. Progress Sync Scrobble (to third-parties) is the Kavita+ feature.

            My understanding was the Kavita+ items are things to do with third-party services and meta data providers that are an API/cost-based service to the dev. That being said I don’t use any of those features.

        • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          I’ve looked into Kavita before and it looks good, just need to figure out a way I can wirelessly connect to it using KOreader on my Kindle to transfer books and sync reading progress

          • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1 month

            The OPDS service works for me, just like on Calibre. I can browse my books from within KOReader.

            • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1 month

              I see, that’s good to hear, since KOreader has a direct integration with Calibre, when I connect it to my server it shows up as a external device in Calibre and I can select multiple books in Calibre and directly send to the Kindle in one click which I find more convenient than navigating a OPDS catalog from within my slow kindle and downloading books one by one, but maybe in the future when I get a better e-reader I will give Kavita a try.

              • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1 month

                My workflow is usually to add a book to my Want to Read list in Kavita, then on a reader I can go to that list through OPDS and browse just that list. Makes things much more managable assuming I don’t spam the list.

  • tomjuggler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    Does anyone else just read on their phone? I use Librera ebook reader in dark mode. The app even reads to me with tts while I’m driving.

    Haven’t picked up a paper book in over 10 years!

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2 months

    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

    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 months

      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

  • flynnguy@programming.devEnglish
    2 months

    I have a kindle that I’ve had for ages. It has been jailbroken for a while and I’ve been loading my own epubs onto it. They make it easy with the 1 click send to kindle stuff but that locks you in to their ecosystem.

  • jackiechan00@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 months

    Jailbreaking and never turning airplane mode off has been the best decision I made with my kindle. Download from zlibrary, transfer to folder on kindle, done

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Jokes on Amazon I already jail broke mine and can directly download books from my Calibre server to it, KOreader ftw

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    I got 3 kindles off eBay for the price of 1 new. 2 successfully jail broken (and 1 ready to be jail broken. Just on the fence of making another account, or gamble my main one again)

  • Dearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Older kindles can still have ebooks transfered directly to them via usb cable