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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 76 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Anna's Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.

Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone's interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Ah, so a kindle needs to be jailbroken/rooted for sideloading books.

Also, this is the third mention of turning on airplane mode. Is this to stop Amazon from doing something to the Kindle?

[–] Syldon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are making the OS more and more convoluted for loading your own books.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently I torrent books (legally of course) and then send the e-pub book to my kindle through the Kindle app. works a treat.

now I just have to find the attention span to read a book

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