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If you have epub books you want to read on a Kindle, jailbreaking and installing KOReader seems like overkill. Why not just convert them to mobi and read them

If you have epub books you want to read on a Kindle, jailbreaking and installing KOReader seems like overkill. Why not just convert them to mobi and read them with the native reader?

WillAdams 1y ago
Current Kindles will accept .epub files sent via the "Send to Kindle" feature, converting them to be read.
- goosedragons 1y ago
  Which leaves them up to the mercy of Amazon's conversion system. Did they fix it choking on the text encoding yet or is there a decent chance of it messing with apostrophes still?
  - rahimnathwani 1y ago
    Which leaves them up to the mercy of Amazon's conversion system. How so? You can convert the files to mobi using Calibre.
    - goosedragons 1y ago
      Then you're not using "Send to Kindle"!
- boznz 1y ago
  Until I got my Kobo this was my preferred method. Shame the Kobo does not have such a feature.
  - theothertimcook 1y ago
    https://send.djazz.se/ https://send.djazz.se/
- vunderba 1y ago
  I have a pretty old Amazo Kindle Paperwhite (10+ years old) and if you use the send to Kindle email address, you can only send ePub to it, they discontinued support for mobi at some point.
  - rahimnathwani 1y ago
    OP doesn't want to use Amazon services, so sending files via Amazon's email service isn't relevant.
    - theothertimcook 1y ago
      https://send.djazz.se/ https://send.djazz.se/
- rahimnathwani 1y ago
  OP doesn't want to use Amazon services, so 'send to kindle' isn't relevant.
boneitis 1y ago
It's a one-time setup and no longer requires conversion. Granted, it's less of having eliminated a step and more like having shifted the workflow, now having to load into KOReader as the new "default" state if you ever have to reboot the device. I can put on a custom wallpaper. That you cannot do this without jailbreaking is largely also an ideological/philosophical issue, IMO. And, it's a fun icebreaker if another Kindle user in public walks by and sees a whacky wallpaper. Then, I can share my enthusiasm with hacking or tinkering with computers in general and sometimes that will carry into another line of conversation if everyone's in a conversing mood (of course, without pontificating or breaking out into a lecture about the evils of bigcorp, DRM, etc... I know some people are really bad about that). Not everyone wants to dump time into tinkering with their Kindle like that, I get it. And honestly, mine collects dust these days, as I find it more difficult to ramp up reading momentum with it, whereas I can more easily (and inadvertently) binge-read if I grab the smartphone thinking I'm just going to squeeze in a few paragraphs, even if the experience is worse.
- boneitis 1y ago
  I may have outed myself with "no longer requires conversion". Of course, epubs can have DRM.

If you have epub books you want to read on a Kindle, jailbreaking and installing KOReader seems like overkill. Why not just convert them to mobi and read them with the native reader?

WillAdams 1y ago

Current Kindles will accept .epub files sent via the "Send to Kindle" feature, converting them to be read.

goosedragons 1y ago
Which leaves them up to the mercy of Amazon's conversion system. Did they fix it choking on the text encoding yet or is there a decent chance of it messing with apostrophes still?
- rahimnathwani 1y ago
  Which leaves them up to the mercy of Amazon's conversion system. How so? You can convert the files to mobi using Calibre.
  - goosedragons 1y ago
    Then you're not using "Send to Kindle"!
boznz 1y ago
Until I got my Kobo this was my preferred method. Shame the Kobo does not have such a feature.
- theothertimcook 1y ago
  https://send.djazz.se/ https://send.djazz.se/
vunderba 1y ago
I have a pretty old Amazo Kindle Paperwhite (10+ years old) and if you use the send to Kindle email address, you can only send ePub to it, they discontinued support for mobi at some point.
- rahimnathwani 1y ago
  OP doesn't want to use Amazon services, so sending files via Amazon's email service isn't relevant.
  - theothertimcook 1y ago
    https://send.djazz.se/ https://send.djazz.se/
rahimnathwani 1y ago
OP doesn't want to use Amazon services, so 'send to kindle' isn't relevant.

boneitis 1y ago

It's a one-time setup and no longer requires conversion. Granted, it's less of having eliminated a step and more like having shifted the workflow, now having to load into KOReader as the new "default" state if you ever have to reboot the device. I can put on a custom wallpaper. That you cannot do this without jailbreaking is largely also an ideological/philosophical issue, IMO. And, it's a fun icebreaker if another Kindle user in public walks by and sees a whacky wallpaper. Then, I can share my enthusiasm with hacking or tinkering with computers in general and sometimes that will carry into another line of conversation if everyone's in a conversing mood (of course, without pontificating or breaking out into a lecture about the evils of bigcorp, DRM, etc... I know some people are really bad about that). Not everyone wants to dump time into tinkering with their Kindle like that, I get it. And honestly, mine collects dust these days, as I find it more difficult to ramp up reading momentum with it, whereas I can more easily (and inadvertently) binge-read if I grab the smartphone thinking I'm just going to squeeze in a few paragraphs, even if the experience is worse.

boneitis 1y ago
I may have outed myself with "no longer requires conversion". Of course, epubs can have DRM.