Subj : Re: Books and ereaders
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Oct 02 2020 00:03:15

Answering a msg from Kurt Weiske:
>-=> Alan Beck wrote to ALL <=-
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> AB> Is this a good area to be discussing books and ereaders?
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> AB> The Kobo Libra H20 is the one I am looking at.
>
>There's no topic off topic here, and we don't have a book echo
>anywhere on Fidonet, so fire away!
>
>I have two hand-me-down Kindles - an ancient one and a more recent
>paperwhite model. Since they own the biggest ebook seller and the
>hardware, it's easy to get locked in.
>
>Will the Kobo let you side-load books via USB, or do they have their
>own store?
>
>Do you know what ebook formats it uses?
>
>Lately, I've been getting more books and texts from the internet and
>using Calibre to convert them to .mobi format. Lately, I've been
>finding a lot of text and pdf references on the net and converting
>them, as a pdf converted in Calibra looks a lot better then if you use
>the kindle mail send-to feature.
>
>
>
>
>
>... Mechanicalise something idiosyncratic

I have the 1st gen Kobo model.  Works fine. The screen is the gray-version which can be hard to read. I use the Adobe reader prgm to import the purchased copy-protected books. And then I feed the Kobo with a USB connection. Good enough. I wouldn't mind owning one of the modern paper-white models - but that is a low priority.


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