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Do you prefer digital or actual books (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.world

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I can't help but always worry that one day I'll need paper books. I don't know what it is, but I feel like I should start collecting paper books instead of every single book I have is on my Kobo. Which do you do? If you get paper books, is there a source that sells cheaper books. Books are kind of pricey where I look.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, the easiest way is to have an old kindle on your account with DRM that's been beaten. Then you can download the files like you're going to copy them via USB to that device, and use that device's serial with the de-DRM calibre extension and it's pretty easy.

I haven't found an equally effective way without it, though I haven't looked as much as the first method works for me.

You can rip Audible audiobooks with Libation. It's not applicable to ebooks, but worth just tacking on since we're on the subject of Amazon lock-in.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The method I used actually (currently) doesn't require a physical Kindle. I just had to download a specific version of Kindle for PC (Version 2.3.70682) and was able to quickly and easily use the Calibre extension to remove the DRM.

I'm not super confident it'll always work, so I'm not planning on buying more books from Amazon, but it's a good solution to pull my existing library into the ePub world.