And I just sent a note to Amazon ttelling them that they should have told me about the app.

Grrr.

I use calibre as a library. I've got fic in there, as well as Gutenberg and kindle books. I have used it to remove the DRM from my Kindle books for personal archival purposes (you have to install scripts and stuff to make Calibre do it), as well as convert library books only available in ePub to Kindle (I then make sure to delete them in time as I worship libraries). I've been significantly more within-the-ethics in book world than I was in music world, back when I listened to music less sporadically.

Mostly, Calibre is iTunes for eBooks, and can conveniently talk to my kindle for easy transfers.

Gris speaks for me: Calibre is the way I manage my ebook collection. While that includes stripping DRM, it also includes managing out-of-copyright books, fic, and ebooks that don't have DRM to begin with.

That said, if I make the mistake of trying to load an Amazon-purchased book that I stripped DRM from onto the Kindle, the Kindle squawks at me and demands that I delete it. It's really annoying.

Everything I use Calibre for is legit. It's very useful for turning .doc and .rtf files into ePub or Mobi. I also use it for managing my e-reader, but nothing in my library has ever had DRM.

I use it to strip DRM off of things I buy on Kobo to put on my Kindle. I've found a lot of popular fiction isn't available for Kindle in Canada due to rights issues. (Including free versions of public domain books...WTF!) Every single thing I've stripped is something I've paid for, and I'm not sharing it, so I don't feel too badly about it.

Don't get me started about not being able to subscribe to The New Yorker...that's the kind of thing that's perfect to read on the Kindle.

So, I had asked this question ages ago, and since then the add-on I'd been pointed toward has gone from freeware to payware (whatever the term is, and it's been awhile since I last checked).

So, I'm looking, again, for a way to display webpages in a standardized way (text-heavy) so that I'm not dealing with funky colours for font and background, or weird narrow columns of text, or text running off the page.

I'd google this, but I don't even know the language to use.

What browser are you using?

(eta: I assume you want something like Readability : [link] )

or the instapaper text bookmarklet

the clearly browser extension also works

I have an old SATA 3 drive 4 width X 6 long by 1 high. It looks like most of the USB cases for turning SATA into external drives are for 2.5 inch Sata. Are there cases out there for this larger size? Also I see SATA USB "kits", SATA USB "cases" and SATA USB "connectors". I want a case with a USB cable that I just slip my SATA into and it becomes an external drive I plug into a USB port. (probably after reformmatting) Am I looking for a "case" or a "Kit"?