• Gorroth@lemmy.world
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      I use it with calibre. Works perfect. Even displays the book covers (no matter where you got them) as lock screen background of the kindle. Can absolutely recommend this!

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      Also idk about the newer ones but the old ones last forever. You might need to change their battery but that’s not too hard. I got a kindle keyboard that’s been going strong for over a decade now.

      Also kindles work fine with calibre, you just need a different file format. Mine can read PDFs! (I do not reccomend reading PDF scans on a kindle)

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        It does work with epub now. They changed it not long ago (afaik)

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          Can confirm it works now (not sure when change happened; pretty sure I’ve been using since early 2022). I regularly use epub on kindle.

          They did recently drop mobi (or at least threaten to - they send me an email saying they are going to drop mobi capability after I send one to my kindle).

          Kindle supported file types: • .EPUB • .PDF • .RTF • .DOC, .DOCX • .HTML, .HTM • .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP

          https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email

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        I email ePubs to my kindle, I’m told Amazon automatically converts them, I’ve had 0 issues.

        But calibre can convert them anyway.

    • daninet@lemmy.worldOP
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      I wish to track progress across multiple platform without amazon. So far calibre web and kobo ebook readers look like the go to