On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 20:02 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:24:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format conversion, library maintenance, etc.
And the really important bit is that you can get calibre plugins to strip DRM from books so you are no longer forced to keep your ebooks organized primarily by which source you bought them from. (And you'll still be able to read the book you bought and paid for when the publisher gets into a spat with the seller).
Here's my (few years old now) take on the usefulness of calibre: http://tomhorsley.com/game/calibre.html
Thanks much to all! Dnf got me Calibre and all its support troops in a flash, and it spotted my plugged-in Kindle immediately.
I'm going to have to work on configuring it, I think, because it imagines I want to connect to Amazon, which I almost never do. (We have a Prime account; but abebooks.com is often better, especially for older, out-of-print books.) But that's a detail, or so I trust.
Calibre can interface with several online bookstores, not just Amazon. See under "Metadata Download" in Preferences.
poc