Is sideloading as simple as a drag-n-drop? - Page 5

MikeB1972 · 01-16-2018, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jhowell

Are you sure? If you are going to use a fake email address you should be certain that no one actually has it.

I have one fairly generic email address that other people have used to sign up for services from time to time. When I get a notification of that I use password reset to gain access to the account and delete it. (Except for one time that it was a dating site and instead of deleting I had fun rewriting the user’s profile and interests.)

If they were giving a fake email address to a dating site so they couldn't be contacted then they were spectacularly missing the point

MikeB1972 · 01-16-2018, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Aside from my initial setup, I never turn on WiFi on any of my e-readers. I do wear enough of a tin-foil hat that I prefer to sideload even when I bought from B&N and read on a Nook. Though I admit, I mainly turn off WiFi because it feels unnecessary to me since I'm going to Alf all my books anyway and likely edit them, so may as well sideload.

Me too, well not the tinfoil hat thing.
I even buy books from Kobo and still sideload them to my kobo, easier to keep everything in the same place.

davidfor · 01-16-2018, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by sealbeater

Where do you see that distinction?

Where do you see that it isn't in the store? It says "searches for books". There are only two possibilities in the store (on the website or on the device) or in your loaded library of books. What would be the point of sharing the latter with third parties? "Hey, this person loaded 1000 books on their device and keeps searching for the name 'fred'". That would be worth a lot of money.

Of course, half of the other questions are related to purchases from the company, so the idea that this one is about the store isn't to far fetched.

The fact that there is this misunderstanding suggests the page is badly put together. And as most entries have "unclear", it makes it hard to take it seriously. And as it hasn't been updated for at least five years, it just show how important most people see this.

kacir · 01-16-2018, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Ok interest peaked. Please name me one hardware that came with services and failed completely.

I-Opener
It was a device for browsing the Internet with hard-wired connection to the internet provider (modem-based) that paid for the device. The up-front price for customer was $99, the actual value was somewhere between $200 and $300.

People very soon found out that inside that "internet appliance" is an ordinary PC with a hard-disk wired to the motherboard using some proprietary cable (with a few leads swapped, when compared with a standard cable).

People also got motivated to have a closer look at QNX operating system with Photon GUI that was powering the device. Once tinkerers had a look, somebody discovered that the UNIX shadow password file that QNX uses is non-standard and broke the allegedly-one-way-hash used to encrypt the root password. It was one of first devices to be [literally] "rooted" by customers ;-). You downloaded an *.exe program from the net [to your normal windows-based PC], fed it the hash from /etc/shadow file and got your root password in a second.

I am pretty sure that designers of Kindle, various Apple devices, carrier-locked phones, and many other interesting modern gadgets study this early example with a very keen interest.

Please see the examples of similar failed devices in the above linked Wikipedia article

sealbeater · 01-20-2018, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

I-Opener
It was a device for browsing the Internet with hard-wired connection to the internet provider (modem-based) that paid for the device. The up-front price for customer was $99, the actual value was somewhere between $200 and $300.
Wikipedia article

Bought two. Never really used but but agree, it was my first experience with QNX.

Richwood · 01-21-2018, 12:09 AM

Sony readers, properly set up, have a quite elaborate folders system. I just received one with the file system intact, a PRS-950. To work correctly and show up on the menu side loaded files need to be in the correct folders. I now have about 75 photos and 170 ebooks side loaded in it and used it's file structure to rebuild that on another PRS-950 that someone had wiped clean before selling. I described the file structure in the Sony area in the following thread. See post # 97.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=293092&page=7

mobama · 02-13-2018, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I mean, do what suits you. I just feel like Calibre gives many benefits with minimal headaches. Using Calibre, I've never had any of the issues ejecting my Kobo using any of the preview builds of Windows 10 that I heard complaints about in the forum. Using Calibre, I haven't had any issues ejecting my Glowlight 3 that I've heard others mention in the forum.

(I should go into advertising for Calibre! Or at least donate again...)

How does Calibre handle DRM-protected files? Conversion in particular.

HarryT · 02-13-2018, 03:29 AM

Calibre doesn't handle DRM-protected files at all. There are Calibre plugins that will remove the DRM during the process of importing a file to Calibre, but such plugins are entirely distinct from Calibre itself.

ZodWallop · 02-13-2018, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mobama

How does Calibre handle DRM-protected files? Conversion in particular.

Harry answered that.

But I can say that I buy all my books from Amazon, download them as whatever their format is (I think it's .azw3, but I'm not at home to check), move them in to Calibre where the DRM is stripped, convert them into ePubs, then auto-convert those into kepubs when I'm sending them to my Kobo. I've not yet noticed any problems from my conversions.

(That was a long sentence to type. The process is actually shorter than writing about it was.)

rcentros · 02-13-2018, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Harry answered that.

But I can say that I buy all my books from Amazon, download them as whatever their format is (I think it's .azw3, but I'm not at home to check), move them in to Calibre where the DRM is stripped, convert them into ePubs, then auto-convert those into kepubs when I'm sending them to my Kobo. I've not yet noticed any problems from my conversions.

(That was a long sentence to type. The process is actually shorter than writing about it was.)

Yep. I just moved most of my Kindle library to my Sonys (but it could/can be for my Kobo or Nook Simple Touch as well). Worked like a charm.

Richwood · 02-14-2018, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by rcentros

Yep. I just moved most of my Kindle library to my Sonys (but it could/can be for my Kobo or Nook Simple Touch as well). Worked like a charm.

And that way Amazon has absolutely no control over your library and no way to delete it if you cancel your account or if they claim you have violated their terms of service. I believe too that if you deregister a device all books are automatically removed. Deregister it and then side load your library. With conversion software go to Epub and load it on any other brand of reader.

HarryT · 02-14-2018, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Richwood

I believe too that if you deregister a device all books are automatically removed.

No, this is not the case. Deregistering a Kindle has no effect on books that are already loaded.

ZodWallop · 02-14-2018, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Richwood

And that way Amazon has absolutely no control over your library and no way to delete it if you cancel your account or if they claim you have violated their terms of service. I believe too that if you deregister a device all books are automatically removed. Deregister it and then side load your library. With conversion software go to Epub and load it on any other brand of reader.

I don't see what registering or deregistering has to do with anything. If you're worried about a repeat of the George Orwell fiasco, turn off Wi-Fi and relax.

And as mentioned, if you already have the book backed up in your Calibre library, it doesn't really matter what Amazon or Kobo do.

Little.Egret · 02-14-2018, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

No, this is not the case. Deregistering a Kindle has no effect on books that are already loaded.

That's precisely true but not all readers here will realise that this applies to a Kindle e-reader but deregistering a Amazon Fire (early models were Kindle Fires) /will/ drop all Amazon books.

JSWolf · 02-14-2018, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

If you're worried about a repeat of the George Orwell fiasco, turn off Wi-Fi and relax.

If anyone is worried, my suggestion is to forgo having a Kindle and get something else.

01-21-2018, 12:09 AM	#66
Richwood Astronomy Nut Posts: 519 Karma: 3700000 Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Reno, NV Device: Kindle (All), Kobo (Multiple), Sony (most) and Nook Glowlight Plus	Sony readers, properly set up, have a quite elaborate folders system. I just received one with the file system intact, a PRS-950. To work correctly and show up on the menu side loaded files need to be in the correct folders. I now have about 75 photos and 170 ebooks side loaded in it and used it's file structure to rebuild that on another PRS-950 that someone had wiped clean before selling. I described the file structure in the Sony area in the following thread. See post # 97. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=293092&page=7 Last edited by Richwood; 01-21-2018 at 12:13 AM.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,548 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Calibre doesn't handle DRM-protected files at all. There are Calibre plugins that will remove the DRM during the process of importing a file to Calibre, but such plugins are entirely distinct from Calibre itself.