If you obtain a book on the High Seas, is it safe to use Kindle as the Epub reader? Would it phone home to Amazon that you have an “otherwise obtained” book?
Calibre is your friend.
Youre good! I use calibre to load ebooks from other sources to my kindle
Same here, never had any problem.
You don’t even need to connect your Kindle to the internet. Just keep it in airplane mode permanently and save the battery.
There’s no real way for them to check even if they did care, there’s tons of places to get epubs legitimately that would show up just the same as any legitimate methods
Yeah, amazon literally doesn’t care. The only thing that ever goes wrong when you use Someone Else’s epubs is it sometimes loses the cover art if you’re connected to wifi. Nothing else ever happens
I’ve been pirating ebooks on my Kindle Oasis for a couple years now, and they’ve never said anything. How would they even know you didn’t buy it someplace else?
I use koreader for my kindles and it works like charm, for all books and documents extensions
I do this, I use Calibre to upload it, or occasionally I use my Amazon email to send it to my kindle.
How about using Apple’s “Book” app on a Mac?
Oh you mean kindle software as opposed to the tablet.
In that case just use Calibre
He means what was formerly called iBooks.
I’ve been sending books to my Kindle email address for over a decade and never had an issue. Now that it supports epub it’s even easier.
Phone home for sure since I suffered from the minor nuisance:
https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2020/05/28/kindles-how-to-fix-disappearing-book-covers-issue/
Easy fix in Calibre since just reconnect after the sync.
The bottomline is Amazon does not block side loaded epub/mobi.
Just for clarity Kindles still don’t support epubs but if you use their service they get automatically converted to a compatible format and then pushed to your device iirc.
