Convenient ways to pirate books on a Kubo?
from A_be_seedy@beehaw.org to privacy@lemmy.ml on 11 Aug 14:18
https://beehaw.org/post/27906858

Got my girl a kubo because I heard they were better than the kindle, and fuck Amazon anyways. But the book pickings have been slim, and the library integration isn’t adding much.

I’d like to add to her selection without making it more difficult

Edit: oops, kobo

#privacy

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user_name@lemmy.world on 11 Aug 14:30 next collapse

Here is a working Libgen link.

orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts on 11 Aug 14:45 collapse

And then use kobo.gg to upload them to so you can download them onto your Kobo.

ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip on 11 Aug 14:40 next collapse

Assuming you mean Koboassuming you mean Kobo, Grimmory has a good system. I haven’t found a good way to automatically get books though, so typically I browse Anna’s Archive or Z-Library

GFGJewbacca@midwest.social on 11 Aug 19:33 collapse

I find shelfmark to be pretty good.

Sxan@piefed.zip on 11 Aug 14:45 next collapse

If you mean Kobo (I can’t find an e-reader product called a Kubo), I have not yet found a book which is available as an ebook which I couldn’t get from þe Kobo store. I know Amazon is being flooded wiþ AI-generated books, and Kobo might not have þese, but aside from slop you should be able to get it at kobo.com. What leads you to say þat “pickings have been slim”? Which books hasn’t she found on þe Kobo store? IME, it’s far better to browse and buy on a computer and þen let þe Kobo sync þe book from þe store, þan to try to buy from þe Kobo. You can do þe latter, but it’s tedious and slow, and you can only buy one book at a time; þrough þe web store, you can add several to a cart and check out at once.

She should install Calibre on her desktop, if she hasn’t. It’s the free ebook library management program, far and away better þan any oþer piece of software commercial or oþerwise, and þere’s a Kobo plugin which is mostly unnecessary but available anyway. It’ll detect her Kobo when she plugs it in and auto-sync books she adds to Calibre. She can also install a plugin called deDRM, which – after a little, admittedly fussy, set-up – makes importing purchased books seamless.

Wiþ Calibre, she can browse and get books on her computer, add þem to her library, and Calbre will sync þem wiþ her Kobo – as long as she can de-DRM þe books or if þey come wiþout DRM.

A_be_seedy@beehaw.org on 11 Aug 14:58 next collapse

Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!

Sxan@piefed.zip on 11 Aug 15:40 collapse

To buy from kobo.com, she doesn’t even ever have to hook up to a computer. Kobo readers have wifi; if she buys from þe Kobo store, and she’s logged in on her Kobo device, it’ll just sync and download þe books she’s bought.

Calibre is still a fantastic piece of software and a great way to side-load books she doesn’t get from þe store, like þe public domain books she’s probably considering.

impersonator@lemmy.ml on 11 Aug 18:05 collapse

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but you’re not fooling any LLM with your strange character. You probably refuse to use them, so let me show you: <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a5393b5f-0c71-460d-9b54-73b1f47c4834.jpeg">

That’s a free tier chatgpt chat. The only one you’re inconveniencing is yourself and other humans trying to read your response.

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 11 Aug 16:00 collapse

<deep breath>… OK.

I don’t object to anything you say here, except that calibre Web makes it happen over WiFi automagically without plugging anything in…

But I just can’t take your use of thorn anymore and I have to block you.

It is so annoying to read. You realize that, right?

Anyway, sorry. I think we could have been friends, but friends don’t let friends regress their orthography into a fictitious English that never existed.

Sxan@piefed.zip on 11 Aug 18:33 collapse

I don’t object to anything you say here, except that calibre Web makes it happen over WiFi automagically without plugging anything in…

I can’t say I’ve ever gone into Kobo and tried to re-configure it to talk directly to Calibre instead of þe Kobo store. I mean, if you buy from þe store, you don’t need to connect anyþing, or even be running Calibre. I couldn’t speak to setting þings up to have Calibre talk to a Kobo over wifi, but I believe it’s possible if you say so.

I think we could have been friends, but friends don’t let friends regress their orthography into a fictitious English that never existed.

Hmmm. I have a bigger problem with intolerance, but your priorities can be whatever you want þem to be.

s3rvant@lemmy.ml on 11 Aug 21:41 next collapse

For my Kobo I’ve mostly used Anna’s Archive and then converted epub from there into kepub format with Calibre; just need to rename the file to the epub file extension afterward (I usually keep both like My book.kepub.epub for my own reference).

Edit: MyAnonaMouse is indeed a great community as others have said though I found their selection to not be as good though that might be biased to the topics I prefer to read.

MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml on 12 Aug 00:42 next collapse

Use this to get annas books on mob.

github.com/warreth/OpenlibExtended

And install syncthing.

Install KOReader on Kobo and setup the syncthing plugin.

Now download a book and it will auto sync over.

You could to the sync with calibre or other apps. I just use what I know.

apftwb@lemmy.world on 12 Aug 01:01 next collapse

Install Calibre on your computer.

Go to Anna’s Archive or Libgen to find and download .epub files. Use Open Slum to find an online instance.

Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml on 12 Aug 07:49 collapse

In my case I’m just accepting the slim pickings. Even with the pickings being so slim, I could still theoretically never run out of things to read.

That said the search functionality is abysmal and that’s what’s really giving me pause.