Beginning in late 2022, you'll no longer be able to send MOBI files to Kindle

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G5WYD9SAF7PGXRNA

by hnburnsy • 4 years ago

23 18 4 years ago

fsflover6• 4 years ago

Gentle reminder that proprietary software harms your freedom and takes advantage of you [0]. Consider supporting devices based on FLOSS, like PineNote [1].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...

[1] https://pine64.org/pinenote

b1122• 4 years ago

I might, if it ever ships. And, is in a bare usable state.

fsflover6• 4 years ago

Which is why I said "supporting", not "using".

car_analogy• 4 years ago

No thanks. I'll take the path of least resistance and see where I am led. Because I would rather be slowly enslaved than inconvenienced.

fsflover6• 4 years ago

I laughed. This goes to my favorites now.

MomoXenosaga• 4 years ago

Not everyone is in the highly paid tech bubble. Kindle's are €89.

fsflover6• 4 years ago

See other ways to help in my other comment.

dankboys• 4 years ago

And used Kindles/Kobos are even cheaper

Dma54rhs• 4 years ago

At least they started accepting epub so it's not that bad. Before that I had to convert them to mini beforehand, epub is more popular format anyway.

longnguyen• 4 years ago

This is a great news. I build a service[0] to send articles & online content to Kindle and converting to MOBI sometimes messes up the formatting.

[0] https://ktool.io

StireFarter• 4 years ago

The latest kindles offer a terrible user experience compared to the original - the device has just become yet another way to force ads and shopping portals into people's faces.

Are there any e-readers which do offer a simple, minimalist interface? I've given up hope of finding a low-distraction alternative to an Android tablet for reading PDFs, but have never had the opportunity to try any e-ink devices other than Kindles and Remarkables (which are too expensive and seem like imminent abandonware given the backlash against their subscription model).

SpiderQubit• 4 years ago

Kobo, they have a variety of sizes, have pretty minimal interface and work great. They also support overdrive for libraries. https://www.kobo.com/ereaders

majora20072• 4 years ago

Boox and Kubo have nice readers. I have a Boox Poke and it's pretty nice e-ink that isn't too expensive. I personally just use a Kindle Fire 10 HD for reading though.

majora20072• 4 years ago

Music to my ears! I built an open source application for reading books and comics and mobi has been a huge pain as there aren't many libraries out there that support it, let alone that are cross platforms for all the architectures/OS I support.

Edit: www.kavitareader.com is the software

Beginning in late 2022, you'll no longer be able to send MOBI files to Kindle

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