Say it with me kids, “This is why we pirate digital media from billion dollar corporations”
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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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.
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The magic word is Calibre
Funny, my old kindle seems to be downloading e-books just fine from my self-hosted server.
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I got 3 kindles off eBay for the price of 1 new. 2 successfully jail broken (and 1 ready to be jail broken. Just on the fence of making another account, or gamble my main one again)
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!
Correction: Older kindles can no longer download e-books with the stock rom
... from Amazon. Sideloading is still fine.
I have a kindle that I've had for ages. It has been jailbroken for a while and I've been loading my own epubs onto it. They make it easy with the 1 click send to kindle stuff but that locks you in to their ecosystem.
Good thing I put mine in airplane mode when I first got it and never updated firmware. I load books like its a flash drive.
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
IMO for personal use "drag and drop into the correct directory" is an infinitely better organisational system than tag based libraries, especially for pirated books. I'm not going to sync my books across 10 different devices since I don't need more than 1 reader, so it doesn't make any sense for me to waste time using tags, let alone fix them for every book I download.
Yeah I strongly prefer epub for chapters and text formatting.
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There's not really any advantage of using txt files over open standard drm-free epubs. You can still generate them yourself using txt editors or publishing software, you can still load them over USB. But epubs give you quality of life features on eReaders like title pages, table of contents, chapter headers, formatting markers like bold and italics.
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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
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Jokes on Amazon I already jail broke mine and can directly download books from my Calibre server to it, KOreader ftw
YSK, there's a large number of older Kindles that can be jail broken.
I just ssh pirated .mobi files into mine
lol i already jailbroke my 2012 paperwhite and intstalled Koreader on it so I can sync it with my calibre epub library over wifi
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Older kindles can still have ebooks transfered directly to them via usb cable
So the product lineup is now called "Kindle Paperweight" instead?
Weird.
I didnt know my Calibre server stopped working.
I bet Louiss Rossman da goat is already on the case.
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