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Thank you Kovid Goyal (Calibre)
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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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It’s open source software that lets you read epubs and cbz files natively without conversions, bypass Amazon’s “Send to Kindle” feature, and came at a time when Amazon was removing books from people’s devices. Koreader also has Calibre plugin support to transfer books that way as well (though this isn’t something I haven’t set up just yet).
Overall it provides a bit more granular control over your devices if you like to tinker, and provides an extended lifeline for devices Amazon may have stopped supporting.
This could be interesting indeed, though in my case as I only really download epubs that are autoconverted to azw3 with my custom parameters and are loaded via the same usb I use to charge it anyway, I’m not sure I’d have much to gain here.
What do you mean stop supporting? Do they just stop providing updates? Do updates really matter on an ereader?
Support is kind of topical at the moment if you’re deep into the Kindle Store. Honestly, it’s bullshit to get you to buy a new device.
ETA Kindle Fire tablet info
Ahhh it’s the store, yeah if I used it I agree I think I’d be mad.
Makes sense for them though, it’s extra work to support old formats and old quirks each device might have. There’s got to be an alternative, but I’m not sure what it would be.