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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] polysics@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I sure am glad I got a Kobo for myself for Xmas and ripped all my books to it. Guess I'll be recycling my Kindle for good.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I just got a Kobo color (don't recommend the color feature; no book is ever going to use it except the red-letter Bible and House of Leaves) and gifted the old Kindle to a friend. I e-reader is an awesome gift actually because for a lot of people it's something they would never evenly in years take a chance on, but that they would love it if they tried.

[–] amos@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting that you don't recommend Kobo Color. I was thinking of gifting my mother a kobo but I might just go for a BW version.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To be quite honest I never allowed my Kindle or my Kobo to go online and the experience is not that different. The build quality on the Kindle is a bit better superior and I might well go back. Calibre is the real hero of the story IMO.

[–] amos@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Look to whom you are giving the money. That is a very important part of the whole story.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's interesting. What kind of massage are you talking about here?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Answered in the sibling, but this basically: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Thank you!

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Massage them…?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There’s a script, which I can’t remember now, that can optimise the pages by removing any margins etc so that there is no useless wasted space and every bit of display is used for content.

EDIT: found it -> https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

The color might make more sense if you're into manga or graphical novels as opposed to just ebooks

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If your model accepts a custom OS, some of them make decent e-ink displays for weather, family photos, etc. Things look good in the black and white ones especially.

[–] polysics@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah I've actually thought about doing that and making it an office desk calendar or something. Thanks for reminding me!