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Originally Posted by radius
Hi eschwartz, thanks for the info. I was under the mistaken impression that Kindles had their own borrowing system and didn't connect to Overdrive. And I didn't realize from playing with it in the store that you could turn off recommendations.
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They DO have their own borrowing system, but integrated with OverDrive. Basically, you have to download an acsm to open in Adobe Digital Editions, and from there you can authorize your reader with a book, etc. for most readers,... Or "download" as a link to the Kindle Store, and it's part of your library till the loan expires. After which it is
still there, but you can't read it till you buy it/check it out again. A clever way to lure people into buying more books.
Then there is the Kindle Owners Lending Library, but that's just one book per month, from Amazon. (For Amazon Prime owners.) And you can lend a book you own to a friend, (once only,) but Barnes & Noble allows you to do this too, and possibly Kobo for all I know...
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I was wondering if in the above quote you meant that you can only add limited formats through SSH? Or is that two separate sentences saying that you can use SSH to sideload and that the Kindle supports limited formats in general? (I don't like the original Mobi format from way back when, but I understand the current Kindle format is much improved)
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SSH is just a way to connect to the filesystem remotely. It is the Kindle that does not support many formats. The Kindle can natively read (
Amazon_Kindle#Format_support_by_device):
- .mobi (KF7) -- the old mobi format that has some, um, problems. It might also have the file extension .azw or .prc
- .azw3 (KF8) -- the successor to .mobi which is the official Kindle books format, except for old book which haven't been updated by the publisher.
- .txt -- plain text files don't need an explanation.
- .pdf -- PDFs can be read, but they don't look too good on a 6-inch screen, now do they?
epubs, html, doc(x) and GIF/PNG/BMP pictures can be converted by Amazon's Send to Kindle service. I have also heard that an html page with a .txt file extension will load directly as a plaintext document (it IS) but still receive html formatting.
There are jailbreak hacks that can
read epubs on the Kindle, as well as the alternative
Duokan OS.