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Calibre is good for library management, but for simply adding the odd book I've found it surprisingly easy to simply direct download a .mobi from any easily goo
by lkois 4y ago
Calibre is good for library management, but for simply adding the odd book I've found it surprisingly easy to simply direct download a .mobi from any easily googled website and email the file to my kindle email address.
This obviously feels very sketchy, not only because you might be including Amazon in some very transparent piracy, but because it works TOO well. By which I mean, these files aren't simply added to your device, but to your Amazon library; these are then readily available OTA to all devices you own and any you add later.
- lstamour 4y agoIt's a little weird that we're impressed when a relatively tiny book can be stored in the cloud and synced to every device. I get the same feeling from Google Play Books or iBooks. Yet this is a standard feature of [insert name of every cloud storage service ever] and I don't think that much of it at all in those contexts, except maybe when iCloud or OneDrive or Dropbox seems to magically put files on my desktop. I wonder if the difference is that with the exception of comic books (sigh), most ebooks are small enough that they download quickly, yet have good metadata and often excellent cover art, so they replicate quickly. And they rarely get buried inside of unnecessary folders the way other files do. It'd be pretty awesome if say, you could visit Humble Bundle and after buying a DRM-free collection of ebooks, just hit a button to transfer the entire bundle to a Google Drive folder or iCloud Drive folder without having to download and upload things. That's still maybe a missing thing. But it's not terrible to have to send files manually. It's just extra work. (How lazy can I get, apparently?)