At the same time, I’m a poor college student who finds the fact that the Kindle edition of books is often half the price of a physical copy, and everything is available through Amazon.
Can anyone recommend a good ereader/publisher stack? I’ve considered trying to find ePub versions and then converting them to work on my Kindle—is that possible?
Help free me from this prison!
Source: A writer I follow had a book submission declined until they reformatted it from .mobi to .epub, and they discussed it on Facebook.
The best I can come up with is pretty conspiracy-theory-ish: They're moving towards removing the ability for you to load open formats onto the Kindle directly (i.e. without going through their mail system or kindle-store purchases).
As a cool note about the Remarkable 2..."under that Eink screen sits a dual core 1.2GHz ARM CPU, with 1GB of RAM, running Linux... and... you can SSH into it by default!!!" [1].
Yes, the company could be more open, but I feel like the remarkable is my device a lot more than I do with the kindle.
At least we have Standard Ebooks[1] in the meantime!
curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | grep -oE "/(.*).epub" | cut -d '"' -f1 | grep -v "kepub" | sed '/^$/d' | sed -e"s/^/https:\/\/standardebooks.org/"|wget --no-clobber -i -
I buy a lot of ebooks between multiple stores so having all on one device without loads of hoops is great. I ended up getting 2, a smaller one for reading books and a bigger one for marking up PDFs. Love em.
Calibre does this perfectly.
Alternatively, if you have a jailbroken Kindle - KOReader lets you directly read EPUBs.
Calibre is handy thanks to plugins but I have found it lackluster for anything more advanced than a basic Latin script novel for conversion. Stuff like Japanese where it needs to do R2L it just completely falls on it's face. Comic books don't work well either.
Are you trying to preserve Amazon/Comixology's "smart panel" navigation, or just get the images to display?
For the smart panel nav, I can't help you, but if you all you care about is the images, I've made plenty of my own CBR/CBZs from Amazon AZWs by just pulling out the Images directory, zipping the directory, and renaming the .zip to .CBZ.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765...