Use Kindle as an Epub Reader? (lemmy.world)

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If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an "otherwise obtained" book?

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[-] passepartout@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

As I've never been sure about that, I always used kindles without wifi access and copied the books onto the device with calibre. I recently read about people sending their pirated books to the email adress amazon hands you to automatically copy files to the kindle, using a burner account i suppose, still those people have some balls lol.

[-] we_come_at_night@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I've been doing this since I got the first kindle, some 7 years ago. Amazon doesn't really care and, unless DMCA comes, they won't ever.

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