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minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up82·1 month agoYSK: If you have an older Kindle, the open-source book management software Calibre is able to copy mobi, epub, and PDF to it without Amazon’s involvement. All features related to reading still work this way.
minus-squaremustard57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 month agoThis is the way I’ve been using my kindle for a couple of years. Works great.
minus-squareRustling Leaves@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoSadly Calibre has AI crap in it now: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#services-and-utilities Thankfully there are forks which exclude that.
minus-squarefelixwhynot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down12·edit-21 month agoI think Amazon actually bought Calibre! At least it still works… Edit: I’m apparently totally wrong here! Not sure where I heard that, so nevermind
minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-21 month agoNo. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre It’s almost 20 years old and on a GPL-3.0-only license.
minus-squarefelixwhynot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoWeird, I don’t usually make up stories like that… nevertheless you are correct and I was wrong! Glad to see it in this case.
YSK: If you have an older Kindle, the open-source book management software Calibre is able to copy mobi, epub, and PDF to it without Amazon’s involvement. All features related to reading still work this way.
This is the way I’ve been using my kindle for a couple of years. Works great.
Sadly Calibre has AI crap in it now: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#services-and-utilities
Thankfully there are forks which exclude that.
I think Amazon actually bought Calibre! At least it still works…
Edit: I’m apparently totally wrong here! Not sure where I heard that, so nevermind
No.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
It’s almost 20 years old and on a GPL-3.0-only license.
Weird, I don’t usually make up stories like that… nevertheless you are correct and I was wrong! Glad to see it in this case.
What? No.