If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an “otherwise obtained” book?

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    1 year ago

    You don’t even need to connect your Kindle to the internet. Just keep it in airplane mode permanently and save the battery.

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      1 year ago

      Late to the thread, but it’s worth saying how convenient it can be to find a book online and just email it to the kindle, no cables or arcane software wrangling needed.

      If you don’t mind having a generic cover and occasional janky formatting, it feels like a bit of wizardry every time I track down something I want to read and it’s there on my e-reader in a matter of minutes.

      This also applies to checking out titles from the library, assuming they’re not wait-listed. Even after years of reading this way, it still tickles me whenever I can just pick a book and be reading it without getting out of my chair.

  • neko@fishfry.cheese.beer
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, amazon literally doesn’t care. The only thing that ever goes wrong when you use Someone Else’s epubs is it sometimes loses the cover art if you’re connected to wifi. Nothing else ever happens

  • JIMBLYB@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There’s no real way for them to check even if they did care, there’s tons of places to get epubs legitimately that would show up just the same as any legitimate methods

  • KaJedBear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been sending books to my Kindle email address for over a decade and never had an issue. Now that it supports epub it’s even easier.

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I do this, I use Calibre to upload it, or occasionally I use my Amazon email to send it to my kindle.

  • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been pirating ebooks on my Kindle Oasis for a couple years now, and they’ve never said anything. How would they even know you didn’t buy it someplace else?

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    1 year ago

    As I’ve never been sure about that, I always used kindles without wifi access and copied the books onto the device with calibre. I recently read about people sending their pirated books to the email adress amazon hands you to automatically copy files to the kindle, using a burner account i suppose, still those people have some balls lol.

    • we_come_at_night@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been doing this since I got the first kindle, some 7 years ago. Amazon doesn’t really care and, unless DMCA comes, they won’t ever.

  • Historical_General@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just for clarity Kindles still don’t support epubs but if you use their service they get automatically converted to a compatible format and then pushed to your device iirc.