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E-Books, best places to get them? (lemmy.world)
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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I use EbookHunter. You have to turn on a VPN after 3 downloads or they make you sign up for it. I've downloaded many books from there for my Kindle.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There are some websites like z-lib that still work. Also, I usually just hunt for books on search engines, sometimes I also find copies on VK.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've been enjoying e-books off of Archive.org (not web.archive.org)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, you can sideload pirate ebooks onto a Kindle. There are some restrictions with file formats, most people use Calibre if they run into issues with them. For ebooks I just grab mine from libgen most of the time.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Regarding the sources for books, you've gotten a lot of recommendations already. Loading them onto the kindle is super easy. You cannot only transfer via USB, your kindle even gets it's own mail address you can then just mail your books to and have them converted and transferred by Amazon.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There are e-libraries if you go with a non Amazon device. They're great

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Are there any good non-amazon ebook readers?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Look at the Kobo e-readers

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

https://calibre-ebook.com/

https://fmhy.net/

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