Subj : Books and ereaders
To   : All
From : Alan Beck
Date : Sun Oct 04 2020 09:46:22

 -=>> Alan Beck wrote to ALL <=-

 AB>> Is this a good area to be discussing books and ereaders?

 AB>> The Kobo Libra H20 is the one I am looking at.

 KW> There's no topic off topic here, and we don't have a book echo anywhere
 KW> on Fidonet, so fire away!

 KW> I have two hand-me-down Kindles - an ancient one and a more recent
 KW> paperwhite model. Since they own the biggest ebook seller and the
 KW> hardware, it's easy to get locked in.

Paperwhite ones are nice..




 KW> Will the Kobo let you side-load books via USB, or do they have their own
 KW> store?

I think I can but DRM plays a large part in stopping that.

I can load the Globe and Mail using Calibre.
Calibre is what you need to learn.



 KW> Do you know what ebook formats it uses?

The list is to long to type here.

..mobi is one that seems rare to me, I used to load them on my Palm Pilot.




 KW> Lately, I've been getting more books and texts from the internet and
 KW> using Calibre to convert them to .mobi format. Lately, I've been finding
 KW> a lot of text and pdf references on the net and converting them, as a pdf
 KW> converted in Calibra looks a lot better then if you use the kindle mail
 KW> send-to feature.

I will remember that and check out the PDF features, also look into .mobi.

Thanks,

Alan



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