Calibre is your friend.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Youre good! I use calibre to load ebooks from other sources to my kindle
Same here, never had any problem.
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 do this, I use Calibre to upload it, or occasionally I use my Amazon email to send it to my kindle.
I use koreader for my kindles and it works like charm, for all books and documents extensions
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
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.
As I've never been sure about that, I always used kindles without wifi access and copied the books onto the device with calibre. I recently read about people sending their pirated books to the email adress amazon hands you to automatically copy files to the kindle, using a burner account i suppose, still those people have some balls lol.
I've been doing this since I got the first kindle, some 7 years ago. Amazon doesn't really care and, unless DMCA comes, they won't ever.
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?
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.
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.