Thread: Question about Kindle, Calibre & Canada
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Old 11-03-2010, 10:09 PM   #10
Gwen Morse
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Originally Posted by Bellychaser View Post
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!
Epub should convert pretty easily in Calibre (as others have posted). For PDFs novels/fiction I use a program called PDF Reflow: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfreflow/

For PDFs with complicated formatting, I don't read them on my Kindle.

I have been enjoying reading comics on my kindle (color comics scanned in, converted to greyscale, and viewed in landscape mode).

Enjoy your new kindle, it's a lovely device.
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