Thread: Sideloading: Own content or "from somewhere else"
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Old 11-11-2014, 11:56 AM   #174
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
I really hope so.

I've bought all of my books legally (or downloaded free ones legally), and I sideload everything. I actually have to, most of the time, as I prefer EPUB as my base format, while my primary e-reader is a Kindle. Therefore I have to remove DRM and then sideload before I can read.

Additionally, I don't want to be dependent on any manufacturer's cloud to be able to retrieve my books, and just as Harry, I bought books at many places, such as ebooks.com, BooksOnBoard, Diesel-Ebooks, Kobo, Feedbooks and Amazon. Some of those stores don't even exist anymore, but because I removed DRM and put the books into Calibre, I still have access to them. (They are also in a folder called "Originals", which contains all originals without DRM, but untouched by any edits in Calibre; not even any metadata is corrected.)



Good point. First, my reader only contains 3-10 unread books only (my current series, and one or two extra, maybe a few standalone books), and second, I normally keep it logged out.

Actually, I have to check that. Can a Kindle be registered, but NOT logged in to Amazon, or do I need to unregister it? Durned. Now I have to turn Wifi on to check, which will make the reader download books that I will have to remove afterward.
On a Kindle, you can turn on Parental Controls and block access to the store. You don't need to turn on WiFi to do this. I'm curious as to why just turning on WiFi will cause books to download to your device?

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