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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least install KoReader before they find a way to firmware-lock the device.

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[–] Yppm@lemy.lol 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Using calibre to just upload books directly.

I'll check out KoReader. Never heard of it.

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, Calibre is the way to go. KoReader is basically custom built for Calibre, and includes things (missing from the base kindle firmware) like native metadata retrieval.

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