Gregory's Server@craigmaloney hmm, does this mean a slightly old kindle that doesn't do epubs will start to become a bit useless?
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ana :_witchhat:
@craigmaloney @internethelen I do. Not connected to. But already I only read pdf and txt files on it 
Daniel Bohrer
@ana @craigmaloney @internethelen That is great news! Do you know if their EPUB will be with DRM then? 
maloki 🍍:ghostbat:
@craigmaloney @internethelen I'm still getting updates on my kindle (I've had it for 7 years) , so I guess it depends on that. I don't think it's a hardware issue, but a software issue. But Yey!
Helen
@maloki @craigmaloney this 2019 one gets updates but it doesn't support epub, so just worried that without an update it'll be obsolete in eight days 
Craig Maloney ☕
@internethelen @maloki Apparently I still have the K3 and I'm not seeing any updates for it. So I'm thinking it's going to be for tiny PDFs from here on out. Or ewaste. 
Bubu :progress_pride:
@internethelen @craigmaloney I think calibre can transparently (i.e. when sending to the device) convert epub to mobi. I suppose that nothing will change in that workflow.
Helen
@Bubu @craigmaloney sure but I don't use calibre and as I understand it, I can no longer buy a book from their store and read it on the device they made for that purpose, that's what I'm miffed about
Bubu :progress_pride:
@internethelen @craigmaloney I don't actually know how the amazon kindle store works. Probably due to drm it doesn't just allow you to download an epub and have calibre push it to your kindle? Well, all drm free ebooks will just continue to work. There's a bunch of stores out there that sell those. Calibre even has a link list sortable by country and a builtin search across stores/public sources. |
@internethelen Not sure. I don't think I still have old hardware lying about.