On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 20:02 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > 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. Calibre can interface with several online bookstores, not just Amazon. See under "Metadata Download" in Preferences. poc _______________________________________________ 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
