I’ve been using the Kindle ebook reader for over a decade now, and I’ve accumulated quite a big digital library from Amazon. However, now I’d like to move away to another ebook reader, preferably Kobo, but I don’t want to leave my Kindle ebooks behind. I’d like to bring them with me.

Does anyone have any advices or tools that they can recommend that will allow me to move my Kindle ebooks over to Kobo or some other ebook reader (e.g. Nook)?

P.S. Sorry if this post has nothing to do with this community. Out of all the communities I follow, this one seemed to be the most appropriate for such a question.

  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a Kobo Clara HD, also moved quite a few years ago from a Kindle to this. I really love the accessibility of the Kobo ecosystem. The store, while not as vast as Amazon, has good books to choose from. You can also load your own items onto it. Calibre has good support. All in all, I am happier with it than the Kindle; not worried about a book disappearing on me.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I have a Kobo Libra 2 and I also like the Kobo ecosystem.

      You can ignore the store entirely if you want (I have done that) or you can use the store and it appears to have plenty of books at a reasonable price.

      I’m pretty sure you don’t even have to login or make an account if you don’t want too.

  • FlareHeart@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think (but I have not tested) that if you can use the DeDRM plugins to import your books into Calibre… You might be able to use Calibre’s conversion function to make them all ePubs (which are Kobo friendly). I don’t have a Kindle but I do use a Kobo and have had to run DeDRM and some conversions to make books compatible.

    Good luck!

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      This works for me. So long as you have a Kindle device registered on Amazon, you should be able to download directly to a desktop. The DeDRM plugin mentioned removes the DRM during ingestion into Calibre and requires an actual token from Amazon which is linked to the Kindle device you downloaded from.

      I use this to get Amazon eBooks into my Remarkable 2 which requires DRM free.

      • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, +1 for Calibre amd DeDrm, recently I needed to jump through some more hoops since Amazon stopped delivering to that old Kindle Desktop version for PC and needed to use the Android version but generally works pretty well. I’m also surpised how many of the books I read actually don’t have DRM at all but that is obviously down to my obscure taste (mostly indie SFF).

        If all else fails I just buy the book with DRM and then pirate it from the high seas, no harm done (except for the harm supporting big platforms like Amazon does 🤷‍♀️).