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.
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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Gudanov - Jun 04, 2012 6:42:59 am PDT #20226 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Sue - Jun 04, 2012 9:33:44 am PDT #20227 of 25501
hip deep in pie
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.
Juliebird - Jun 05, 2012 3:50:06 pm PDT #20228 of 25501
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
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.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2012 4:02:46 pm PDT #20229 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Jun 05, 2012 4:43:05 pm PDT #20230 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
or the instapaper text bookmarklet
le nubian - Jun 05, 2012 4:43:38 pm PDT #20231 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
the clearly browser extension also works
Typo Boy - Jun 08, 2012 7:27:04 am PDT #20232 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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"?
Gudanov - Jun 08, 2012 7:47:22 am PDT #20233 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Well, there should be options for a 3.5" SATA drive. This kind of device is a handy one:
It's a SATA dock. You just plug your drive into it and hook it up via USB. Not the most cosmetically appealing of devices, but it can be really handy if you need to read something off of a hard drive real quick and work as your external drive the rest of the time.
Typo Boy - Jun 08, 2012 8:51:40 am PDT #20234 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Thank Gud. That is what I was looking for. It just seem there a lot of cases out there with no power supply, and no USB cable included.
Tom Scola - Jun 08, 2012 11:59:37 am PDT #20235 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Ita.