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Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

#132

BTW does Kindle let you load your own DRM-free ebook files instead of buying books on Amazon? I use a PocketBook (pocketbook-int.com) which emulates a mass storage device and lets me read everything. I once considered buying a Kindle but heard it won't let me load bare files this way. Is this true?

You can sideload the files via USB, just copy the files over to its internal storage and it will appear on the home screen. You can also associate a Kindle with an email address, and email files to that address. The file appears as part of your cloud collection. For sideloading, the books need to be azw3 or mobi. For emailing the book needs to be mobi. In either case epub is not accepted.

Calibre is a great way to manage syncronisation and reformatting to Kindle-supported file types, it even allows you to select your Kindle model to make sure it looks well:

https://calibre-ebook.com/

https://www.howtogeek.com/73979/how-to-organize-your-ebook-c...

Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

#134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guessing the implication being that Google is ultimately not "free" w/ respect to your personal data and how it is used.

Yes but how does Google enter into this?

The mailing list is provided by Google Groups

Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they use "straight" quotes instead of “curly” quote why care?

I don't mean this ironically, I really don't understand why would anyone care about such things?

Language and typography are art. Proper typography is more aesthetically pleasing.
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