Which brands are generally more piracy-friendly? Do you suggest any specific model? Or maybe there are products that are easily customizable at the OS level? Thanks!

  • spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Thank you!

    Ah yes, I forgot this was a feature Calibre has! When I had only my Kindle I managed to always find mobi for the books I wanted so I only converted one or two books, those for which which I thought the version I found was not good enough.

    Assuming the source epub is decent, how good is the converted mobi? Does it ever screw up?

    Things like, a chapter heading or paragraphs losing their spacing and/or alignment.

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      19 hours ago

      I never really compared the source to the converted mobi, but overall I can’t really complain.
      Usually if the formatting is a little screwed up I assume it’s the source’s fault. :)

      Almost every book I read nowadays is an epub converted to mobi.

      Honestly, the bigger issue I have is the inability to put the sideloaded books into a series “folder”.
      Instead I had to set Calibre to add “<series> <number> <book title>” string to the book tile in the metadata. :/

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        11 hours ago

        Fair enough :)

        Hmm. I never thought about trying to organize them in a series folder.
        I just let Calibre do the default folders by author.

        One thing that I want to do is for a few books change the metadata to have just the main author because for a given book of a given series it will concatenate all 15 authors-or-writers-or-helpers-or-whatever, and for that reason that book, the third of 5 books, is in a different folder.