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Is a Kindle usable without an Amazon account ?

• savramescu 14y ago
  Very much so. Just use Calibre to load books and your fine.
  • glogla 14y ago
    I'm not sure how it works now, but older Kindles were just mass storage devices so you could put books there by hand.
    • josteink 14y ago
      You still can, but calibre lets you do format-conversion (since mobi is the only real format you can push to it while retaining readbility). It also allows you to tidy up meta-data and stuff to make things look better. It's definitely a "required" component as far as my Kindle is concerned.
  • pi18n 14y ago
    I used to have Calibre, but decided not to install it on my latest system, due to this bug and the cavalier reaction to it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027
• Nursie 14y ago
  There are other ways to load books on to a kindle (Calibre, IIRC, is a piece of software that can do this). This allows you to load epubs and other files. I believe there are legal (non-pirate) ways to buy these, but I've really no idea how good the vendors are or how wide the catalogues are.
• merijnv 14y ago
  I use my DX exclusively for reading scientific papers and stuff from Project Gutenberg, I just connect it over USB and copy PDFs/epubs/txt/html on there and everything works just fine. So yes, it works just fine without an Amazon account. Granted I bought mine without any expectation to buy ebooks, so I can imagine this being unsatisfying for people the expect to actually purchase DRM books...
• curiousdannii 14y ago
  Definitely. The Kindle will appear as any USB drive does, and you can just copy your files to it.