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Any good suggestions for alternatives to Kindle and Audible? I'm looking at storytel, tolino, libro.fm, and also places like Casa del Libro, wondering if anyone's used them and if they're good?

Or another service?

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[โ€“] philthi@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I already had a kindle reader so I've chosen not cause more pollution by replacing it.

Now I buy my books from smaller local bookstores as digital editions, use a small tool called knock to change it a epub then use calibre to put it on my kindle for reading.

I particularly like that this way I can also share it with my friends and family as if it were a real book.

[โ€“] ipp0@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

If you havenโ€™t updated your kindle to 5.18.1, you can also jailbreak it and install koreader which allows you to read epub natively on the kindle, see https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

[โ€“] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Calibre can also convert between various file formats, and with DeDRM plugin, it can also remove Amazon and Adobe DRM.

[โ€“] philthi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh interesting, I'll check out dedrm, thanks.

[โ€“] teardownthewalls@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

I'd say I'll do the same and keep my current kindle which is second-hand anyway. Thanks for the tip with knock.