I’m going to buy a kindle paperback (I’ve never had one), and I’m sure I’m not going to buy any books for it. What mods/steps/other stuff do you guys suggest to set it up?

  • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    +1 for Calibre, it’s the only thing you need. Get MOBI, AZW, or EPUB formats and you’re good to go.

    Just to be clear, there’s no reason to keep your Kindle in airplane mode all the time, except to extend battery life (which helps a lot, honestly). Amazon doesn’t punish you for having pirated ebooks on it. Also it’s nice to have software updates periodically, they sometimes add nice features.

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah battery life was my prime use case, and since I really don’t do anything but reading on the kindle, I haven’t yet come across any potentially missing feature. Didn’t they also serve ads at some point? I feel like if the kindle is disconnected from the internet for >30 days, the cached ads expire and that’s that.

      For non-fiction and notes taking I’m using the reMarkable 2, that’s honestly a game changer. And it displays books in large enough size to view unmodified pdfs.

      • riseuppikmin[he/him]English
        2·
        1 year ago

        Preventing the updates is also another benefit of airplane mode if youre planning to jailbreak the kindle eventually.

      • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Correct, if you have the ad-supported version it will display ads if you let it check in again. So keeping it on airplane mode is an option to avoid that. Or you could just pay $20 to Amazon to remove the ads. I hear if you whine to customer support they might remove them for free, but haven’t tried it.

        • plexnose@geddit.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          You don’t have to whine -literally just get on a chat and ask them ‘please can you remove these ads’ - they’ve done it for two kindles for me no charge, no question.

        • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t even know if I have the ad supported version, it’s been that long. They kept pushing bestsellers onto my screen, but I don’t know if those were ads or if that’s considered a regular feature.