eBook purchase preferred work-flow?

bugeyed · 07-05-2010, 01:50 PM

Can someone please list a work-flow that they use to dnload books & then manage with Calibre.
I would like to use either Adobe Digital Editions or Sony Reader Library to authenticate & then Calibre to manage the library. Don't know which is better to use Digital Editions or Sony Reader Lib. I will most likely be dnloading eBooks from several sources & some of them are DRM'd & some use .ascm files. I do not need instructions for removing DRM.

Thanks,
kev

Clancy_s · 07-05-2010, 09:08 PM

95% non drm books, buy / download epub if offered, load into Calibre (under linux), send to my PRS-505, which I have set up with custom firmware and epub formatting.

If no drm, no epub: load into Calibre, convert into epub*, send to device.

If drm: boot into Windows (vista 32 bit though I doubt it makes a difference), download with ADE, for ADE stuff or kindle for pc.

liberate.

boot back into linux, import into Calibre and proceed as before.

* if they offered lrf but no epub I'd probably leave it as I got it, all conversions needed are to epub for longevity. I convert .txt, html and other stuff the reader can handle itself because I've found the extra formatting the reader does before displaying them really shortens battery life.

07-05-2010, 01:50 PM	#1
bugeyed Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 30 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kobo 2, PRS-600	eBook dnload work-flow recomendations. Can someone please list a work-flow that they use to dnload books & then manage with Calibre. I would like to use either Adobe Digital Editions or Sony Reader Library to authenticate & then Calibre to manage the library. Don't know which is better to use Digital Editions or Sony Reader Lib. I will most likely be dnloading eBooks from several sources & some of them are DRM'd & some use .ascm files. I do not need instructions for removing DRM. Thanks, kev Last edited by bugeyed; 07-05-2010 at 04:07 PM.

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07-05-2010, 09:08 PM	#2
Clancy_s Zealot Posts: 133 Karma: 1010308 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Newcastle, NSW Device: Kobo Glo HD	95% non drm books, buy / download epub if offered, load into Calibre (under linux), send to my PRS-505, which I have set up with custom firmware and epub formatting. If no drm, no epub: load into Calibre, convert into epub, send to device. If drm: boot into Windows (vista 32 bit though I doubt it makes a difference), download with ADE, for ADE stuff or kindle for pc. liberate. boot back into linux, import into Calibre and proceed as before. if they offered lrf but no epub I'd probably leave it as I got it, all conversions needed are to epub for longevity. I convert .txt, html and other stuff the reader can handle itself because I've found the extra formatting the reader does before displaying them really shortens battery life.

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