Say it with me kids, “This is why we pirate digital media from billion dollar corporations”
this is also why i started buying physical books and using my local public library again.
Hell Yeah.
My local library allows borrowing ebooks. It’s incredibly useful. I own two kindles and haven’t spent a dime at Amazon for ebooks. I do buy physical books now and then from there, but only if I really need it and can’t find elsewhere.
Jailbreaking and never turning airplane mode off has been the best decision I made with my kindle. Download from zlibrary, transfer to folder on kindle, done
Weird.
I didnt know my Calibre server stopped working.lol i already jailbroke my 2012 paperwhite and intstalled Koreader on it so I can sync it with my calibre epub library over wifi
It’s a pity Calibre to date refuses to be refactored into a self-hosted service.
The core logic should be portable, with the app just being an interface to it, but no, the entire project is so much spaghetti it would feed the entire boot for over a year… such a shame.
I switched. Kavita is the new hotness.
I found it for comics, but realized it handled books as well as Caliber does, in a modern interface with OPDS support.
I’ve looked into Kavita before and it looks good, just need to figure out a way I can wirelessly connect to it using KOreader on my Kindle to transfer books and sync reading progress
The OPDS service works for me, just like on Calibre. I can browse my books from within KOReader.
I see, that’s good to hear, since KOreader has a direct integration with Calibre, when I connect it to my server it shows up as a external device in Calibre and I can select multiple books in Calibre and directly send to the Kindle in one click which I find more convenient than navigating a OPDS catalog from within my slow kindle and downloading books one by one, but maybe in the future when I get a better e-reader I will give Kavita a try.
My workflow is usually to add a book to my Want to Read list in Kavita, then on a reader I can go to that list through OPDS and browse just that list. Makes things much more managable assuming I don’t spam the list.
I tried Kavita and immediately recoiled at the fact that basic features like progress sync or metadata matching are behind a paywall - literally features that don’t cost the developers anything, while having open, active bug reports going back a year on these “premium” features.
All while licensing the code under GPLv3…
Progress sync works fine for me in KOReader with OPDS. Progress Sync Scrobble (to third-parties) is the Kavita+ feature.
My understanding was the Kavita+ items are things to do with third-party services and meta data providers that are an API/cost-based service to the dev. That being said I don’t use any of those features.
OPDS doesn’t do progress sync, at all… you’re running something else there if that works for you.
https://anansi-project.github.io/docs/opds-pse/specs/v1.2
They use the PS extension. I believe Komga and Kavita maintain the spec now. Reader support for Kavita specifically is in the Wiki.
PSE is page streaming, not progress sync…
Does anyone else just read on their phone? I use Librera ebook reader in dark mode. The app even reads to me with tts while I’m driving.
Haven’t picked up a paper book in over 10 years!
Older kindles can still have ebooks transfered directly to them via usb cable
Correction: Older kindles can no longer download e-books with the stock rom
… from Amazon. Sideloading is still fine.
I’ve been using raw text files for my books, sent locally over USB, and that’s the way it’s gonna stay until my reader craps out
can’t you just load epub with calibre or another sync to? I’m pretty sure that’s what I do because that’s what I’m doing
So the product lineup is now called “Kindle Paperweight” instead?
Kobo gang where you at?
8 year old libre still kicks kindles ass
Got my wife a Kobo for her birthday to replace her aging Kindle. She’s bought 1 book so far and gonna look at the Library integration.
Anyone got any tips for ways to use the Kobo? For example I have Calibre on my Mac and have used that to copy books I’ve “acquired” for her, is there any benefit in self hosting Calibre? Is it possible to get her Kindle books on the Kobo or is the DRM a nightmare nowadays?
you can interface with calibre web via opds from eBook readers. basically you can browse and download books in your calibre server. I use koreader to do it. as for previous books she’s interested in I’d just look for them in the electronic library
You got any more specific info on how to do this? I spun up my caliber web container on my home server, but once I realized you can’t download books over the wifi, you still had to connect to a PC, I stopped hosting it.
What ebook readers are capable of this magic?
Any Kobo can install KOReader with a minor firmware update (that only needs to be done once). There’s instructions here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices It supports OPDS out of the box (though IMO is a little unintuitive to use)
Thanks! I’ll check it out
