Jules she/her14h ago
Okay I have about 900 Kindle books that I've paid for. I've never dared try stripping the DRM off them in case Amazon somehow finds out and blocks my account, losing me the rest of them. But since Amazon's planning on deprecating my Kindle in May now I guess I have nothing to lose. What would everyone suggest? And can anyone recommend a good e ink reader to replace the Kindle that can read files from any source?
Show threadJonobie

@afewbugs Do you have the books downloaded on something / somewhere already? If so, it’s a pretty simple import into Calibre with the deDRM plugin. At that point you can put or keep them on your permanently-airplane-mode kindle (to avoid Amazon screwing with it more), or get fancy and jailbreak the kindle (more effort but definitely possible). But the kindle should be able to keep working with something like Calibre putting the books on it. No immediate need to get a new reader unless you want to.

If the books aren’t already downloaded somewhere, that’s the first step and I’m not sure how to get around that these days.

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Show threadJonobie8h ago

@afewbugs I’ll add I bought an old kindle specifically to do this with, and while I jailbroke it for funsies, I didn’t need to for the calibre route to work.

I tried KO reader and found it absolutely unusable without a touchscreen and worse than the native kindle software. So I just read things using the native software and load the device via usb. Once jailbroken there’s a way to load it via WiFi but it just wasn’t worth the setup to me.