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+1 for Calibre, it's the only thing you need. Get MOBI, AZW, or EPUB formats and you're good to go.
Just to be clear, there's no reason to keep your Kindle in airplane mode all the time, except to extend battery life (which helps a lot, honestly). Amazon doesn't punish you for having pirated ebooks on it. Also it's nice to have software updates periodically, they sometimes add nice features.
Yeah battery life was my prime use case, and since I really don't do anything but reading on the kindle, I haven't yet come across any potentially missing feature. Didn't they also serve ads at some point? I feel like if the kindle is disconnected from the internet for >30 days, the cached ads expire and that's that.
For non-fiction and notes taking I'm using the reMarkable 2, that's honestly a game changer. And it displays books in large enough size to view unmodified pdfs.
Correct, if you have the ad-supported version it will display ads if you let it check in again. So keeping it on airplane mode is an option to avoid that. Or you could just pay $20 to Amazon to remove the ads. I hear if you whine to customer support they might remove them for free, but haven't tried it.
You don’t have to whine -literally just get on a chat and ask them ‘please can you remove these ads’ - they’ve done it for two kindles for me no charge, no question.