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Recommend me good e-reader (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by questionAsker@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Kobo Clara BW VS newest paperwhite VS smth less popular but still good. Not interested in color. Libra 2 seems very interesting but very hard to find.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I got the kobo bw. I spent a weekend downloading all 500some ebooks I’ve purchased off Amazon (which they do not make easy) to my laptop. Then I imported them into calibre, stripped all drm, and loaded them onto the kobo.

It’s great, I love it.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can even self host a calibre web instance and have it fully integrated/replace the kobo store on the device

[–] questionAsker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate? Do you use it that way?

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you are into self hosting already, you run a calibre web instance then you can enable full integration with the kobo so Your own self hosted eBook repository becomes the 'store' on the kobo.

https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo-sync-in-calibre-web.html

I use it like to to get access to all my ebooks

If you don't already do any self hosting, then it can take a while to get the foundation of your server setup. I already had that setup so this took less than an hour for me.

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[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You use calibre web. Then on the Kobo you connect it to your computer, backup 1-2 files, then change the store link to your domain name for your calibre web. Simple json file iirc.

Works well but doesn't sync progress I don't think.

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