right. On my ipad, I actually go to dropbox, get the mobi file and then I can "open it" in the kindle app. If you put the file in dropbox or box, can you use your fire to go to the file (like in a web browser) and then open it?
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le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 2:13:08 pm PDT #20214 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:15:33 pm PDT #20215 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is Calibre mostly used to escape DRM?
Dana - Jun 03, 2012 2:16:54 pm PDT #20216 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I use it mostly to convert EPUB files to MOBI.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 2:31:23 pm PDT #20217 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
same here. Thing is Calibre alone can't strip DRM. You have to do something to strip DRM from books and THEN use Calibre.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:32:26 pm PDT #20218 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Primarily fanfic? Maybe that's why this guy's use cases and mine were so different. In his world, Calibre was designed to evade DRM and that was its major usage, where I was mostly thinking of people loading fic.
Which I should totally do more of.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2012 2:33:47 pm PDT #20219 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thing is Calibre alone can't strip DRM
But it's perfectly obvious that it's a step in the pirating process, right?
Well, that's what this guy was trying to convince me of--that it was an unspoken secret that everyone used it for that.
meara - Jun 03, 2012 2:52:31 pm PDT #20220 of 25501
Wellllll, I mostly use Calibre with non-DRMd books. How they GET that way is a different question.
But I've never tried to email anything to my kindle. Either I get it from the Kindle store or the library (and then they come via 3G or for the library, wifi only), or I put it in Calibre, convert if needed, and load while hooked up via cord.
le nubian - Jun 03, 2012 4:12:07 pm PDT #20221 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
not necessarily. I use calibre for legit purposes. In fact, a few years back when I had to do some dodgy shit for ebooks I had purchased outside of amazon, but wanted to put it on the kindle (personal use, not sharing with anyone, not doing any bullshit), I'm not sure I even used calibre as part of that process.
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 5:18:51 pm PDT #20222 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
Well, the easiest thing (as it turns out) is to go to the Amazon website and download an app called "Send to Kindle". Have done that and sent the book to my Kindle.
Why couldn't the customer service people - even the experts - tell me that?
sumi - Jun 03, 2012 5:21:08 pm PDT #20223 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
And I just sent a note to Amazon ttelling them that they should have told me about the app.
Grrr.