On February 26th, Kindle customers will lose the ability to download eBook purchases directly to their PC. If you want to switch to a rival eReader brand in the future, I suggest that you use the soon-to-be discontinued “Download and Transfer via USB” feature to archive your Kindle library.

  • @ATDAEnglish
    22•4 days ago

    That’s fucked.

    So anyway self hosting Kavita to read everything in my browser is hella convenient.

    • riotEnglish
      6•4 days ago

      Interesting, I’d never heard of Kavita, so have just been using Calibre all these years. Did you start out on Kavita, or did you move from Calibre, or another software?

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 days ago

        I use calibre for my kindle, but kavita for web reading on any of my devices.

        The calibre web server kept claiming its downloads to my device were corrupted and would just never open books. Kavita just sends the books page as a web page which gets rid of that particular issue

      • @ATDAEnglish
        3•4 days ago

        I tend to bounce around software. I ran into it at random researching docker containers and just kind of stuck with it. I’ve got a habit of trying to containerize everything nowadays haha