EPUB is an open electronic book standard that is supported by a large number of ebook readers, even, I believe now, the kindle Before you could borrow anything in kindle format, you could in epub. Amazon wanting to keep things proprietary for a long time did not support ePub on their devices, but I believe this changed recently. I do not own a kindle so I can’t confirm that this true now. I certainly was not possible for them to read it before which was one of the reasons I never got one.
As stated above, I do not use a Kindle, but I do have a lot of e-books, all saved in Calibre, but I do not organize them. I only have what I want downloaded on to my tablet (or before an e-book reader) and basically have read and unread.
While I’m waiting for it to download, I have a complaint about Libby that I would like to air, and this seems a reasonable place: I mostly get genre novels, usually mysteries, from LIbby. There are thousands of them, and hundreds of pages to browse through at 25 books per page. You can either start at the beginning, or you can jump to the end and work backwards. But there is no way to jump to some random page in the middle and start going forwards or backwards from there. Why isn’t there a “go to page” function? There is an awful lot of junk to wade through, and jumping around would make it easier to find stuff I want to read but haven’t read.
Yes, I do seem to be able to read an EPUB book on my Kindle (Libby calls it either EPUB or EBOOK, I don’t know why). Thanks, that widens the field a little.
It goes out over some kind of wireless network, maybe it’s still Whispernet. My Kindle (when airplane mode is off) seems to sync up with the network every few minutes and delivers whatever I have borrowed or purchased from Amazon.
I keep my airplane mode on except when I’m downloading books, because then they can’t remove the book when it expires until I close airplane mode. That way I don’t lose a book when I might be a few pages from finishing it.
When read, the majority get removed from ‘home’. No idea where they actually go.
The ‘good ones’ remain in ‘Home’.
This is on my phone, that I have been using since my late wife’s Kindl died and has not yet been replaced.