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I don’t use any app-based reading, it’s just “plug into computer > Calibre send to device” On a Kindle this is a straightforward process, no App Store needed. Is there a compelling reason why an app-enabled ereader is beneficial for my use case?
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In that case, I'd say no, not at all. Most apps don't work well on these devices, anyway.
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Oct 20, 2022 18:50
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I bought the new signature paperwhite to replace my older model one and haven’t opened it yet so what’s the process of everything I own getting transferred? Is it as simple as logging into my Amazon account and it just does it all? To add a wrinkle, some of the books were purchased via Amazon.co.uk using a fake address in England and setting the account temporarily to it so will those download or is that kind of screwed?
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Oct 22, 2022 01:04
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I bought the new signature paperwhite to replace my older model one and haven’t opened it yet so what’s the process of everything I own getting transferred? Is it as simple as logging into my Amazon account and it just does it all? To add a wrinkle, some of the books were purchased via Amazon.co.uk using a fake address in England and setting the account temporarily to it so will those download or is that kind of screwed? When it comes, it’ll already be signed into your account. Your UK stuff is probably boned unless you redo the tricks. It won’t have any content on it by default so you’ll have to prompt it to download stuff.
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Oct 22, 2022 02:11
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Yea that's the only real annoyance with kindle, be it for PC, phone or the ereader. It won't automatically download all your stuff. I usually just go into calibre and move batches over until I have what I need there. You can log into your library on Amazon and batch click stuff to be sent, but that's gonna depend on when Amazon decides to send it.
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Oct 22, 2022 02:56
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drat. That’s what I figured. Thanks.
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Oct 22, 2022 03:19
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With regards to your UK stuff, verify that it's in your Content & Devices/Books, and if it isn't auto sync'ed, just push-deliver it to the device of your choice. I'm in Denmark, which means no native Kindle shop, and books for sale is through the International license. This means I can't shop books directly at Amazon UK (even when UK was still part of the EU), but am forced to use Amazon US, but not with the US licensed books. For many years, and through several Kindles, I have been using my buddy's US address for buying Kindle books, published under a US license, and occasionally switching to a fake UK address to buy Kindle books from Amazon UK, published under a UK license, then switching back to the US address a bit later. All those books are available in Content & Devices/Books, no matter which store I've bought them through, and are all available to push to all devices if needed.
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Oct 22, 2022 14:41
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My wife is in the market for an eReader, and I haven't kept up with these devices since I got (and eventually lost) a Nook Simple Touch in 2012. Everything I'm seeing only has internal storage? We're looking for one that's 7.8 - 10" or so, either removable storage or at least 16gb internal storage, that handles pdfs and epubs well, available to the EU market. The Boyue P78 Pro looks interesting.
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Nov 4, 2022 12:02
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The latest planet money is about publishers vs. libraries in regards to e books and might be interesting to people here: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishers-ebooks-e-books-macmillan-protest-amazon-bezos Personally I think they take the whole “those poor publishers losing so many sales to local libraries!” too much at face value and how apparently everyone has 10 different library accounts to get around restrictions (I’d be amazed if it’s more than 1% of library users), but it shows how each side is doing and how publishers are getting more and more aggressive on fighting libraries.
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Nov 12, 2022 03:37
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lmao I only just now realized that you can use homebrew to install and manage calibre on a mac instead of manually updating it over and over and over again 
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Nov 12, 2022 06:23
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speaking of ereaders and libraries my wife wants a new ereader with easy to use overdrive or libby integration. she mostly gets books from the library via overdrive on her phone but hates reading on it. can anyone speak to the kobo readers and overdrive specifically?
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Nov 15, 2022 04:25
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Arson Daily posted:can anyone speak to the kobo readers and overdrive specifically? Kobo Aura One user chiming in, love the Overdrive/Libby functionality. You can look up books on the Kobo and, if it's in your local library, there will be a checkout button. Alternately, you can check out books in Libby and they will appear on your Kobo next time you synch. Pretty painless! Occasionally a book won't appear to be able to checkout on the Kobo, but the Libby workaround has never failed.
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Nov 15, 2022 04:39
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Yep, works pretty well. Though it got a little less useful for me. Manga books on Libby started going to Media Do licensing which removes the option to download and makes it an in-app read which sucks, fortunately not all publishers. If your wife just reads novels, she'll be more or less fine. Fortunately in Libby, you can see what the book is licensed for before borrowing/holding the book.
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Nov 15, 2022 04:55
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Fantastic just what I wanted to hear. Glad to get away from the amazon ecosystem too
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Nov 15, 2022 06:15
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Kobo has their Black Friday sale active now until December 1st: https://us.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders?utm_source=kobo&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=BlackFriday
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Nov 23, 2022 05:22
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Years ago I bought a Kindle (7th gen), and I found that by de-registering it I could load books on it anyway (like from Gutenberg.org or Standard EBooks, and other completely legal and ethical sources), and never see a single ad as long as I kept it in airplane mode. Obviously this means giving up online connectivity, or being able to create groups of books, both of which I can live without, especially if it means I never see ads or interact with Amazon's store. Just curious if this still works on modern Kindles. Can modern Kindles be de-registered and still be functional readers? And if you keep them offline, will they have no ads? Side experience: I also have a Kobo Mini whose battery stopped holding a charge after less than a year. I'll never buy a Kobo again, but every now and then I think of how nice it was to have an eReader that small. Little devices are underrated.
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Nov 23, 2022 07:40
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Kobo has their Black Friday sale active now until December 1st: https://us.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders?utm_source=kobo&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=BlackFriday Is the battery life on the Sage still poo poo? I want an 8” for manga. My 7” Oasis is too small to read text without straining my eyes after 10 minutes.
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Nov 23, 2022 07:47
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doctorfrog posted:Years ago I bought a Kindle (7th gen), and I found that by de-registering it I could load books on it anyway (like from Gutenberg.org or Standard EBooks, and other completely legal and ethical sources), and never see a single ad as long as I kept it in airplane mode. Obviously this means giving up online connectivity, or being able to create groups of books, both of which I can live without, especially if it means I never see ads or interact with Amazon's store. You can get amazon to take off the ads for free instead of paying the $20, just talk to their customer service and say you got some inappropriate ads and that you feel you shouldn't have to pay to get those kinds of ads taken off.
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Nov 24, 2022 21:46
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PlushCow posted:You can get amazon to take off the ads for free instead of paying the $20, just talk to their customer service and say you got some inappropriate ads and that you feel you shouldn't have to pay to get those kinds of ads taken off. I told them I previously paid for no ads and they “carried it forward” I did, but that was like three Kindles ago.
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Nov 24, 2022 22:02
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is the battery life on the Sage still poo poo? I want an 8” for manga. My 7” Oasis is too small to read text without straining my eyes after 10 minutes. I haven't used my uhhhhh 4th(?) Sage since I got it back from Kobo and have been using my Forma. Felt like battery was still jank and somehow worse with the PowerCover since it feels like it's actively draining when it's sleeping.
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Nov 25, 2022 02:30
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lol this Scribe is ridiculous but I kinda love it. If they put page turn buttons on that left bezel (which I do love for easy holding without touching the screen itself) and a cellular modem I’d get rid of my smaller ones entirely. Maps from history books (a lot of what I read) look great on it, something I can’t say for any other Kindle.
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Dec 5, 2022 23:56
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Rad. I’ve got one on order. I’m hoping they add a 2 column view for landscape reading like the kindle tablet app has.
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Dec 6, 2022 00:22
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If it was easier to add comics to it I’d be down
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Dec 6, 2022 00:25
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I forgot the Scribe was coming out and looks like reviews dropped last week. https://www.theverge.com/23484927/amazon-kindle-scribe-e-reader-notetaking-pen-review Might buy one just for fun, even though I have no interest in note taking.
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My wife likes hers a lot so far-- it's missing some QoL stuff but I don't know how much will change in software with patches over time, it seems like it's a little underbaked at the moment: -no pressure sensitivity for the pen -templates are notebook-wide so you can have a notebook with, say, one calendar page and then another template for the second page and so on -annotations can be exported via PDF but if your annotations are on a PDF in the first place it only exports the annotated pages, not the entire PDF with the markups
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The Scribe is beautiful but there are a few things I don't like about it: 1. No physical buttons for page turning. I actually scoffed at people complaining about this, but I've already had a dozen or so page turn presses that didn't register and I'd rather just have buttons. 2. The case is weird in that it doesn't actually hug the corners of the device. It also seems to come off the nubs quite easily. 3. Comics/manga I've dropped on the device using Calibre show 2 pages of content per page and I can't figure out how to force it to only show 1 page. Any ideas? edit: I will say, I'm enjoying the writing/note taking a lot more than I expected to.
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Dec 10, 2022 19:38
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I absolutely love my Remarkable 2. Hope Bezos doesn’t torpedo the company.
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Dec 10, 2022 21:18
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Does kobo have a cloud storage thing for sideloading like kindle? I make heavy use of emailing epubs and pdfs so my kindle syncs progress with the ios app.
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Dec 10, 2022 23:03
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xarph posted:Does kobo have a cloud storage thing for sideloading like kindle? I make heavy use of emailing epubs and pdfs so my kindle syncs progress with the ios app. Forma, Sage and Elipsa have Dropbox. Not sure on the Libra 1 or 2.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Forma, Sage and Elipsa have Dropbox. Not sure on the Libra 1 or 2. The Libra 2 doesn't come out of the box with Dropbox enabled, but adding/unlocking it is pretty trivial with NickelMenu Having Dropbox built into my Libra 2 definitely made fleeing the kindleverse much easier.
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Dec 11, 2022 02:57
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Is a 10.3” ereader too unwieldy to read standing up on a commuter rail? I can handle my 7” Oasis just fine but something like a 9.7” iPad is too heavy. I’m still looking for a manga specific reader and it seems the only reasonable 8” is the Boox Nova Air C which I can’t find. I don’t give a poo poo about a stylus but it seems I can’t escape it at the 10.3” side.
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Dec 11, 2022 07:25
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I want a manga reader as well, personally I'm just hoping there will be an 8 inch oasis with a good battery announced in the next few months when the foxconn issues get cleared up.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is a 10.3” ereader too unwieldy to read standing up on a commuter rail? I can handle my 7” Oasis just fine but something like a 9.7” iPad is too heavy. Kindle Scribe is about the same weight as an iPad Air (M1). I've used the iPad Mini as a Manga reader and found it very satisfying.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:48
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Did they stop doing Kindle Daily Deals? I only have monthly deals section under Deals on my Kindle.
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Dec 14, 2022 05:07
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Angryrobot.com has a daily sale going for the 12 days of Christmas. New book every day, probably .99 squiggle cause they are UK based and I have no idea how to do that sign.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Angryrobot.com has a daily sale going for the 12 days of Christmas. New book every day, probably .99 squiggle cause they are UK based and I have no idea how to do that sign. The URL is angryrobotbooks.com, but I'm having trouble actually adding today's book to my cart. It sounded interesting enough for ~$1 but whenever I select ebook and add to cart it says "Please choose product options by visiting Bluebird." However, my library extension on Chrome told me that my library has it so I'll probably just check it out 
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My wife and I exchanged eReaders for Xmas! I got her a Kobo Libra 2 and she got me a Paperwhite. She uses overdrive almost exclusively and that functionality is pretty good in the Libra and I have a huge kindle library and just dont want to switch providers. The new paperwhite is super nice and she even got me one with no ads. huge fan
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Dec 20, 2022 02:24
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Anyone else having trouble using calibre to send epubs to the kindle? Over USB, not email. I just cannot seem to make it use that format. Weird.
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Dec 20, 2022 11:16
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Have you tried to use .mobi?
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Yea, mobi works fine. Just with all the stuff about epub being the new sending format it surprised me that I can't actually put em in the kindle.
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