I want to buy open source drm free e-books however I see Kobo that is a Canadian subsidiary owned by a Japanese Company while Apple is American with some operations based in Canada, California is closer to British Columbia however they often use closed standards.

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Sorry that initial question was meant to convey that E-ink.

    OP appears to either have no E-Ink display experience or that is not a hard requirement.

    FWIW, you can use calibre to manage your E-Books. Yes, there are sometimes artificers but IIRC they support mobi too (I apologize if that’s the wrong format I actually haven’t used my kindle in about a year)

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      16 days ago

      I use Calibre to organize my e-books, it is great. Mobi was giving me the best result when I converted from epub, the other Amazon format my Kindle supports is azw3.

      Sadly, I lost half of the last words per line converting from DRM-free books I got from humble bundle, and figuring out the proper settings was taking too long.

      When I learned about KOReader I never looked back, it allows me to sync with Calibre through Wi-Fi and accepts way more book formats. I have been using Kindle more since I installed it.

      The problem is that the process to get it running on Kindle is not that straightforward.