I’m going to buy a kindle paperback (I’ve never had one), and I’m sure I’m not going to buy any books for it. What mods/steps/other stuff do you guys suggest to set it up?
Get a Kobo instead? Kindle are annoying as shit.
Is there anything that can convert the Amazon kindle files to EPUB? Seems like a big barrier to using Calibre if I can’t get my already bought books.
Calibre can do the conversion already. You just need to remove the DRM. And there is a Calibre plugin to do that too.
Kindles support ePub now, the most common ebook format. Finally!
Amazon has a computer app Send to Kindle that makes it effortless to send eBooks to your kindle. Just grab whatever book you want from Anna’s Archive, open in send to kindle and send it to your device.
Later on you could even automate with readarr. Set it to look at your Goodreads to read list and automatically send those books to your kindle.
I jailbroke my old Kindle paperwhite a while ago and installed Koreader on it and just read Epub through that without having to convert anything. No internet, no amazon and you can get second hand Kindles for cheap.
Kindles can read epubs now anyway. You literally don’t have to do anything.
Set it to airplane mode the day it arrives and never let it go online with the stock firmware if you value privacy - these beasts even send amazon the page you are reading currently on. Calibre is the best tool, it autoconverts anything if needed. It also has an RSS-to-newspaper feature that can create a custom newspaperlike magazine from your favorite feeds for you. Reading manga on Kindle is really fun.
