On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:24:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format >> conversion, library maintenance, etc. > > And the really important bit is that you can get calibre plugins to > strip DRM from books so you are no longer forced to keep your ebooks > organized primarily by which source you bought them from. (And you'll > still be able to read the book you bought and paid for when the > publisher gets into a spat with the seller). > > Here's my (few years old now) take on the usefulness of calibre: > http://tomhorsley.com/game/calibre.html Thanks much to all! Dnf got me Calibre and all its support troops in a flash, and it spotted my plugged-in Kindle immediately. I'm going to have to work on configuring it, I think, because it imagines I want to connect to Amazon, which I almost never do. (We have a Prime account; but abebooks.com is often better, especially for older, out-of-print books.) But that's a detail, or so I trust. OT : I've just bought several copies of one of the best books I know (and I'm a bookworm's bookworm), Plagues and peoples by William H. McNeill, to hand out locally -- once I figure out how, under lockdown. I want to recommend the ebook form, too, -- once I make sure of a clean copy -- to people who don't live locally, including some who don't even run Linux. <grin> Thanks again! Excelsior! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
