I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

  • @brsrklf@jlai.lu
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    45 months ago

    Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.

    I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I’ve been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it’s done it’s just drag n drop.

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      45 months ago

      Until it decides to delete every single side loaded book you have on there, which they like to do from time to time. The only way to completely avoid it is to load all your content via email, which unfortunately only supports limited formats.

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        5 months ago

        The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine’s been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          25 months ago

          Yeah same. Until I accidentally turned it off 1,000 miles away from my computer. That was a sad day.

        • @accideath@lemmy.world
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          25 months ago

          Second this. Airplane mode is on and books are sideloaded. However, if it hadn’t been a present, I‘d probably have gotten a Tolino (German/European e-reader brand that is identical with kobo) because they support epub directly (and yes I know the Kindle technically does that, too, now but wordwise n stuff only works if you convert them to kfx)

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        5 months ago

        Well, good luck to Amazon trying to wipe my kindle remotely with black magic then.

        It doesn’t have WiFi configured at all.

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          15 months ago

          When it happened to me I was staying with a family member whose house I’d never been to before, so I didn’t have their wifi. I couldn’t believe it.

            • Encrypt-Keeper
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              15 months ago

              Aw man I didn’t even know about that. I guess 4g LTE is Amazon’s “Black Magic”

              • @accideath@lemmy.world
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                15 months ago

                I mean, in general it’s pretty neat. When I was 12 or 13 I had a kindle touch with 3G and since I didn’t have a phone or computer I used the kindle touch to read a lot on wikipedia (it didn’t work for everything, I think. Just a handful of selected sites). Also, it generally costs extra when you buy it, just not monthly.