Thread: Kindle Paperwhite 5.6.5 - OPDS and ePub?
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Old 12-14-2015, 01:53 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by mateuszv View Post
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?
The "trick" to using ebooks in file formats not natively understood by the Kindle is by definition to jailbreak it and run custom software.
You can still jailbreak over the serial port (requires: soldering).


Alternatively, are you very attached to reading EPUB, as opposed to EPUB converted on-the-fly to AZW3?
As mentioned, calibre does an excellent job. It also includes a server that can broadcast an OPDS and HTML catalog. As the Kindle does not include an OPDS parser, you will have to use the regular HTML catalog.
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