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.

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    4 days ago

    thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that’s been around for twenty fiveish years.

    • somenonewho@feddit.orgEnglish
      20·
      4 days ago

      I love Calibre. I’ve recently broken my E-Reader (Tolino) but all my books are backed up on Calibre so the only loss is the hardware (still sad but not as annoying)

        • amphy@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          This. I’ve personally found it easiest to use Calibre to strip DRM & get things tidy, then use Audiobookshelf to manage both my ebooks and audiobooks

            • amphy@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Yep! Here’s an ebook I have hosted through Audiobookshelf, reading it over the Internet using my domain & reverse proxy.

              (The top bar is shown/hidden when you tap the screen, so it’s not always in the way like this)

    • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Yeah is this going to break calibre functionality? I remember using it to rip books from my kindle library but not how, exactly 🤔

      • BirdObserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 days ago

        It’ll break saving books you bought from Amazon, but you’ll still be able to send books you got from other places to it from Calibre. Fortunately barely any of my ebooks on my kindle are from Amazon (though my next ereader isn’t going to be a kindle, that’s for sure).

        • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          Cool guess I’ll download anything I bought from Amazon before the cutoff then it’s been ages and I can’t remember what’s there o7

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Probably some kind of plugin or script to run… i forget the specifics because literally grab the kindle version, then search z-library.