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Originally Posted by Bellychaser
The Kindle has everything i want except Amazon. I don't plan on buying any books from them, I live in the boonies of northern Ontario Canada so I don't even have 3G around here and I already have an extensive library of unread books but most are PDF or EPUB. How much of a PITA is it to use Calibre to convert my books to read on the Kindle and what quality of reading experience should i expect? Also, can someone describe for me the Kindle's catalog features? Can i still use the catalog it if none of my books come from Amazon?
Basically I am leaning toward the Kindle 3 because of the text quality, it's low price and because it appeals to me aesthetically.
Thanks!
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Bellychaser,
I already had a fairly large epub library when I got the Kindle 3. It wasn't a problem to convert using Calibre and the results are excellent, almost always as good in Amazon's formats (.mobi, .AZW) as as viewing an epub natively.
The Kindle file structure is similar to Gmail, if you use that online. You "tag" books (articles, documents, whatever) with "collection" names. You can tag an item with multiple collection names and it will appear in each collection.
There aren't "folders" perse, just collections.