Best ebook readers for piracy? (slrpnk.net)

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Which brands are generally more piracy-friendly? Do you suggest any specific model? Or maybe there are products that are easily customizable at the OS level? Thanks!

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[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

Pretty well written post.

On Kindle and epub: it's pretty annoying, but once you set up Calibre to automatically convert on sending to device, it's effortless.

[-] spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Thank you!

Ah yes, I forgot this was a feature Calibre has! When I had only my Kindle I managed to always find mobi for the books I wanted so I only converted one or two books, those for which which I thought the version I found was not good enough.

Assuming the source epub is decent, how good is the converted mobi? Does it ever screw up?

Things like, a chapter heading or paragraphs losing their spacing and/or alignment.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I never really compared the source to the converted mobi, but overall I can't really complain.
Usually if the formatting is a little screwed up I assume it's the source's fault. :)

Almost every book I read nowadays is an epub converted to mobi.

Honestly, the bigger issue I have is the inability to put the sideloaded books into a series "folder".
Instead I had to set Calibre to add " " string to the book tile in the metadata. :/

[-] spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Fair enough :)

Hmm. I never thought about trying to organize them in a series folder.
I just let Calibre do the default folders by author.

One thing that I want to do is for a few books change the metadata to have just the main author because for a given book of a given series it will concatenate all 15 authors-or-writers-or-helpers-or-whatever, and for that reason that book, the third of 5 books, is in a different folder.

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