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mateuszv · 12-14-2015, 01:40 PM

Hello all, I recently got a Kindle Paperwhite device. I'd never buy such closed-software thing myself, but I got it as a present so here it is.

But here comes the problem: all my ebooks are in ePub format, and I fetch them from my local OPDS server. It would seem that Kindle supports neither OPDS, nor even ePub. Not out of the box at least.

I suppose there are other owners of Kindle Paperwhite here - have anybody found some trick that would allow to access ePub files via OPDS on such device? Or if not via OPDS, then at least normal (non-amazon) ePub files? I read about jailbreaking, but my understanding is that version 5.6.5 doesn't allow this. Best would be to install FBReader (that's what I use until now on my mobile phone to read ebooks), but I guess that without jailbreaking it won't go.

Any hints please?

12-14-2015, 01:40 PM	#1
mateuszv http://mateusz.viste.fr Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Location: France Device: FBReader (Android)	Kindle Paperwhite 5.6.5 - OPDS and ePub? Hello all, I recently got a Kindle Paperwhite device. I'd never buy such closed-software thing myself, but I got it as a present so here it is. But here comes the problem: all my ebooks are in ePub format, and I fetch them from my local OPDS server. It would seem that Kindle supports neither OPDS, nor even ePub. Not out of the box at least. I suppose there are other owners of Kindle Paperwhite here - have anybody found some trick that would allow to access ePub files via OPDS on such device? Or if not via OPDS, then at least normal (non-amazon) ePub files? I read about jailbreaking, but my understanding is that version 5.6.5 doesn't allow this. Best would be to install FBReader (that's what I use until now on my mobile phone to read ebooks), but I guess that without jailbreaking it won't go. Any hints please?