Subj : Re: Books and ereaders
To   : Alan Beck
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Oct 01 2020 10:38:00

-=> 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.

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.





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