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Calibre will also automatically download your choice from over 300 on-line publications (I get the AP and BBC newswires every day for free) and convert the HTML to the e-book format of your choice! Who needs a daily newspaper? Reply So with Calibre (yes there are other ways to do this, such as Zamzar, but Calibre is the way-coolest) you simply convert your – say – Open Source EPUB e-books to MOBI format and then Calibre will load them into your Kindle. The Kindle “format” is actually a DRMed version of the old MOBI format.

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Hmmm…would it not be easy to scan and OCR a paper version of a book or have a moderately talented hacker cook up a program to OCR a DRMed e-book, page-by-page, from video memory? Anyhoo…secondly, and much more importantly, in addition to learning how to read Kindle-formated books on readers other than a Kindle, how about the obverse: Reading non-Kindle formated e-books on your Kindle? Easy as pie/pi! Just download and install the totally amazing and wonderful Calibre, Open Source e-book management, format-converter, e-book reader, meta-data finder, and backer-upper.

They are worried about “piracy” by all us potential “pirates” (Arrr matey! Actually what we have here is a form of the misdemeanor shopliflting and not really a felony like piracy.). There are, in effect, only five book publishers and they all have reneged on their previous agreements to sell libraries e-books. With free Kindle readers on just about any platform that you might consider using to read books, there’s just not much of a barrier to use Kindle for all sorts of reading needs.įirstly, you can no longer borrow e-books from your library. Much like PDF, it’s become a file format. Kindle has become more than just a cool e-reader.

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Naturally, you can also visit your online archive from any of your Kindle devices directly and select books that you’ve purchased to download as well. Visit the “Manage my Kindle” page at Amazon and you’ll find a list of all the books you’ve purchased along with a menu on each one that allows you to send it to whatever Kindle devices you have registered: Deliver a book to a device… The “master copy”, if you will, of the book is always kept on Amazon’s own server.

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You’re buying a book, but unlike a physical book where you take one copy home, Amazon’s approach is a little different.īuying a book on Kindle is more like getting a perpetual license to read the book on any device that you own. Doesn’t buying mean that you download books? Running Chrome is my approach to reading on my Ubuntu Linux boxes – it works great. Visit in Edge, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari (including Safari on the iPad), sign in with your Amazon account and you’ll be able to read any of the Kindle books that you’ve purchased right there, in your browser. There’s even a Kindle reader that works in many web browsers without even needing a separate application. It’s not uncommon for me to open up a book on my phone (an interesting phrase all by itself), only to have it say “looks like you’ve read up to this far on your Kindle Fire – want to just pick up there?” Can’t forget the cloud!

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Continue reading it on my Windows PC when I need a break at my deskĪs long as the device that you’re using has internet connectivity, the various devices on which you might be reading a Kindle book will keep themselves in sync.Continue reading it on my Android-based phone while I’m out and about.Most Kindle titles can be downloaded and read on multiple devices that are assigned to the same Amazon account. Once installed, that application lets you read any Kindle-based publication that you like. If you have a PC, a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad, or an Android-based phone or tablet, you can download the Kindle application for FREE. What I’m talking about, of course, is the Kindle application: Available Kindle Apps (Click for larger image.) All that you really need is an account with .Īfter that, aside from the cost of the books, everything else that you need is completely free. The big deep dark secret to Kindle, however, is that you don’t need a Kindle device to read Kindle books. I also loved the previous editions of the Kindle as well. I love my Kindle Fire and know many people who share that love. Far from it.Īnd it’s one of the reasons why I really like the Kindle publishing platform. OK, I totally made that question up, basing it on what I expect a lot of people to be saying as more and more publishers begin producing content on Kindle – either exclusively, or “exclusively-for-a-while.”

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