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by cbdevidal 28 days ago
Not sure if you’re joking but is it possible to even do that? I understand some books are kept on their cloud servers and only some get downloaded.
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thih9 28 days ago
Yes, it’s possible. Note: no downloads work in airplane mode. Cable works just as well though.
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nosioptar 28 days ago
I had an old kindle that I never connected to the net or with an amazon account. I loaded books by USB.

Damn near impossible to find DRM free books to purchase though.

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cbdevidal 28 days ago
It is still possible to remove DRM and export to PDF or epub. Not point-and-click easy, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1q1uza4/successful...

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nosioptar 28 days ago
While Calibre makes it easy, it's even easier to just download a copy someone else has already stripped of DRM.

If publishers/authors want my money, they can release a version without DRM.

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steve-atx-7600 28 days ago
Yep. Go to yandex, search for book, download ebook, done. I’ll order a hardcover of the book if I liked it. I don’t mind reading on an iPhone (iBooks will open it and even sync it across devices). If I did, I’d use Calibre to load books on a kindle. I did this recently as a test and it worked on the second version ever made of the kindle.
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lostlogin 28 days ago
Calibre is a rather painful tool, but seems to remain the best.

Calibre web and calibre web automated downloader remove a fair bit of the clunk.

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DavideNL 28 days ago
> Damn near impossible to find DRM free books to purchase

My method has always been to buy physical books (which is also better to support the author, because they get a bigger % of the price you pay.

And then, there are other creative ways to download the ebook... (without buying from Amazon, or other monopolists.)

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iLoveOncall 28 days ago
No, you choose what is downloaded locally. You can also get .mobi files and copy them to the kindle directly.
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wolvoleo 28 days ago
Not anymore, they have removed the option to download files for transfer via USB https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/12/download-transf...

Ironically, files downloaded from "other" sources have no issue. So they're just making it harder to buy from Amazon legally.

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