E-Books, best places to get them?

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Anna's Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.

Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone's interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.

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Just because no-one has mentioned it yet.

Your local library. You probably don't even have to go in, once you're account is set up you can check out books online.

IRC is where it's at. In the many years I've been using it to download books there's only been a handful of books I've been unable to find.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/2oftbu/guide_the_idiot_proof_guide_to_downloading_ebooks/

Shoutout to project Gutenberg as well. It's a massive free archive of books that are in the public domain.

The best way to get back into reading is to go to your local libray, get a card, set up an the library app for ebooks, have the librarian recommend you something based on what you like, and start reading it. I got back into reading a year ago, have read about a dozen books, and haven't spent any money so far just by heading to the library. I personally like to have a book with me but if you keep your e-reader around and just read it during the times you'd usually check social media or your phone you'll get back into it in no time. I wish you luck!

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I use Calibre for management. It's a little clunky but it manages thousands of titles easily, probably tens of thousands.

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

I use library genisis. Great for scientific papers and adequate for fiction.

Not exactly piracy, but if the book in question is public domain, my favorite site is Standard eBooks! Very high quality books, with proper formatting and translations.

Lib gen https://libgen.li/

I use zlibrary's tor mirror, i know it's never down

I still use z-library. https://singlelogin.re/ has nearly all books.

Hey, just wanna shout out to your local library. Overdrive (Libby app) is amazing, but only works on kindles in the USA. Double check if kindle supports overdrive in your country and if it doesn't you may want to get a Kobo or a third party e-reader instead.

Either that or you can use DeDRM to strip the adobe digital editions drms to keep the library books after they expire.

Give Kobo a look, Amazon isn't the only name in the game. Kobo lets you connect directly to your library and check out books on the device, I absolutely love mine after having a couple Kindles.

Maybe look into an Onyx Boox instead of a Kindle. It will let you download books straight from the web (like standardebooks.org and Project Gutenberg) without having to side load. Also, you can add the Libby and Overdrive apps to it since it accesses the Google Play store. Also, it accepts all files formats so you don't have to convert anything.

Libby? Library but digital

My go-to ebook source is mobilism, if they don't have them on hand you can request them in exchange for points? Can't remember exactly.

Shout-out to https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ Once you've sourced from MAM

To manage your library and transfer to the reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/

There’s also a plugin to de-DRM books if you want.

You can find many e-books on general trackers like 1337x. You should check out anna's archive. It's a website which provides access to books from several sources like z-lib and libgen (download, not torrents).

oceanofpdf also has a lot of direct downloads for ebooks and they're very good

I've found all books I've ever looked for on libgen.is

My fav place to get books is libgen.is. They usually have what I want in multiple formats. I read on my phone, so I always have a book with me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

https://fmhy.net/

There are e-libraries if you go with a non Amazon device. They're great

a list i found on tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/naked-trails/735488706556854272?source=share

Personally I would recommend a Remarkable. It's more expensive but soooo much more useful with a pen.

You can load books onto a Kindle, but format conversion is required and the results are not always pretty.

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