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my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books. what’s your source for boo
by zuppy 2y ago
my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books.
what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?
- pmx 2y agoYou can browse the Kobo book store here https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebooks https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebooks
- _thisdot 2y agoWhat are the prices compared to Amazon's? Books are generally cheaper here in the subcontinent. I did a price comparison of 30 books and found out that Kindle editions cost significantly lesser than Kobo. And Kobo editions cost slightly higher than paperbacks. The total amount for these 30 randomly selected books came to: Paperback price: ₹13,017 (~$149) Kobo price: ₹13,252 (~$152) Kindle price: ₹9,171 (~$105)
- OvbiousError 2y agoI found that it's often best to use google search to search the kobo store. Books sometimes have multiple editions with significant price differences. Not sure if it would make a difference in this case.
- _thisdot 2y agoWhat other popular stores exist? And I assume you sideload those books to Kobo afterwards? In that case, is the experience of reading sideloaded books inferior to that of reading store bought books?
- londons_explore 2y agogoogle search "book_name epub"
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- sandeep1998 2y agosame
- zuppy 2y ago... but this does not replicate the kindle one-stop store experience. and looking on the kobo store doesn't help either, i wanted the experience for someone who actually migrated from kindle. i may find the books i'm looking for now, but what are the struggles for people who actually used it? do they come later than kindle, are they using multiple shops, etc. edit; yes, i know about the pirating options. i'm not talking about those.
- goosedragons 2y agoKobo in my experience has all the books from big publishers, the publishers that publish paper books too. What they do not have is the stuff from Kindle Direct Publishing. This is stuff people have self-published on Kindle, I think Amazon requires exclusivity when you do that too? In my opinion this is actually more of a blessing than a curse since I consider 99% of that garbage I don't want to sift through. Sometimes multiple store headaches are still a necessity depending on region. Even on Amazon.
- joseda-hg 2y agoIIRC they give you a better revenue split or something of that nature if you only publish there
- a-french-anon 2y ago`filetype:epub book_name` should be tried first, in my opinion.
- nolok 2y agoThis is rather terrible for supporting authors though. I read a lot of scifi from small authors who self publish on kindle direct publishing, and I would rather they get my money for their work. And yes I can pay then find the epub (and not all are available, due to small author), but the experience is then much worse.
- defensem3ch 2y agoannas-archive.org
- mdhen 2y agohttps://open-slum.org/ https://open-slum.org/
- ReptileMan 2y agoanna archives
- tjoff 2y agoSearch for alternative first. If it doesn't exist: purchase and download the file from amazon and remove the DRM.
- extraduder_ire 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155 - Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th (2025-02-16)
- magnetowasright 2y agoIf there's no DRM-free version available to purchase, I buy from the kobo store (it's very easy to access different region stores which can impact book availability) and I then remove the DRM. Library genesis is also an option, of course.
- b112 2y agoThis is why I buy an android e-ink tablet. My needs are unique, all of our needs are unique I suppose, but I want epub but also want to use the Kindle app (in cases of them being the only place to get a book). I worry about firmware updates(security), but also my needs do not require the tablet being online constantly. So in a case like this, not a phone, not online, I only bring the wifi up to download books from Amazon via their Android app. Otherwise, I copy epubs over via USB. This is the middle ground. I've been quite happy with the Meebook E-Reader M7.
- eek2121 2y agoFWIW actual kindles don’t need to be online except if you are buying a book or transferring one via their website. Older Kindles did have an optional cellular connection, but that was to make purchases easier. Kindles aren’t limited to the Amazon store. Your kindle has an email address you can email books to, and there are ways to transfer via USB, etc.
- zuppy 2y agothanks, i researched into this and bought a boox go color 7. now i can have both the kindle app (for books i can't buy anywhere else or already purchased) and new books outside of kindle app. bonus, it has text to speech which kindle doesn't really want to let you do so it won't lower audible purchases. not the same quality as audoble, of course, but free.
- broken-kebab 2y agoI don't know if it still works, but the last time I checked it was possible to un-DRM (de-DRM?), and convert amazon format to normal epub, and read it everywhere
- benkaiser 2y agoYeah there's a way to do this with Calibre + some plugins on windows. I tried on my Mac but it was unsuccessful.
- criddell 2y agoDepends on which version of the DRM. KFX hasn’t been broken yet. It’s been a bit of a cat-and-mouse game where the DeDRM people make some progress then Amazon tweaks something and they have to start over. There are some workarounds that involve getting Amazon to give you an older version of the file, but then you lose the typography improvements present in later versions of Amazon’s ebook format.
- ornornor 2y agoLibgen, #bookz on irc, and dedrm plugin for calibre will let you get drm free copies of books you already own so you can use them however you see fit
- digikazi 2y agoSadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.
- YuccaGloriosa 2y agoI heard some new guys were running it federal bureau of something
- ornornor 2y agoDepends where you look :)
- nathancahill 2y agoIt's mostly gone now. Even on the newer domains.
- rr808 2y agoI use the libby app on Kobo to get books from the library. Its just what I need. I can add epubs and pdfs from dropbox but never use that any more.
- nunez 2y agoebooks.com has loads of books on the platform, though they're DRMed. libby's great also. no need to be locked into kindle anymore. transferring books is also easy. you can install Calibre on your computer, connect the Kindle to it via USB and transfer. if you're into self-hosted, you can run Calibre on a server, either as an installed binary or in a container, and send books to it via email or dropbox.