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E-Books, best places to get them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

I've been enjoying e-books off of Archive.org (not web.archive.org)

[-] val@infosec.pub 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, you can sideload pirate ebooks onto a Kindle. There are some restrictions with file formats, most people use Calibre if they run into issues with them. For ebooks I just grab mine from libgen most of the time.

[-] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

There are some restrictions with file formats

What are they? The only thing I can think of is that pdfs kinda suck.

[-] val@infosec.pub 4 points 8 months ago

I was thinking about epub support, but apparently they do now but dropped mobi support. I haven't used a Kindle in awhile so no idea if there are any caveats. Here's the full list for anyone interested:

Send to Kindle for Web

Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
RTF (.RTF)
Text (.TXT)
JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG)
GIF (.GIF)
PNG (.PNG)
BMP (.BMP)
PDF (.PDF)
EPUB (.EPUB)

Send to Kindle from the Kindle App for iOS and Android Devices

PDF (.PDF)
Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
RTF (.RTF)
Text (.TXT)
Images (.JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP)
EPUB (.EPUB)

Kindle Personal Documents Service

Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
RTF (.RTF)
Text (.TXT)
JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG)
GIF (.GIF)
PNG (.PNG)
BMP (.BMP)
PDF (.PDF)
EPUB (.EPUB)

Send to Kindle Desktop Applications

Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
PDF (.PDF)
Text (.TXT)
Images (.JPG, .JPEG, .PNG, .BMP, .GIF)
RTF (.RTF)
HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
EPUB (.EPUB)

[-] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I was thinking about epub support, but apparently they do now but dropped mobi support.

I never knew they didn't support epub.

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[-] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I use EbookHunter. You have to turn on a VPN after 3 downloads or they make you sign up for it. I've downloaded many books from there for my Kindle.

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

There are some websites like z-lib that still work. Also, I usually just hunt for books on search engines, sometimes I also find copies on VK.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Regarding the sources for books, you've gotten a lot of recommendations already. Loading them onto the kindle is super easy. You cannot only transfer via USB, your kindle even gets it's own mail address you can then just mail your books to and have them converted and transferred by Amazon.