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    -=>> 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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