E-Books, best places to get them?

https://lemmy.world/post/8865870

E-Books, best places to get them? - Lemmy.World

I want to get back into reading, so I’m thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it’s possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books. Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

Anna’s Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.

Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone’s interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.

Tutorial LanguageBreak - Software Jailbreak for (probably) any Kindle <= - MobileRead Forums

Tutorial LanguageBreak - Software Jailbreak for (probably) any Kindle <= Kindle Developer's Corner

Ah, so a kindle needs to be jailbroken/rooted for sideloading books.

Also, this is the third mention of turning on airplane mode. Is this to stop Amazon from doing something to the Kindle?

Not necessarily, Calibre makes this easy