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joe-k · 01-01-2011, 04:13 PM

Hello Aileen and Happy New Year to you.

I managed to get a step closer to making my Samsung E65 (at least partially) repay the money spent on it. A friend explained that the "caliber", referred to in dogsballs posting has is in fact nothing to do with either a "twelve-bore" nor with the perceived character of a person...

I was instructed to google "Calibre" and download their "book management" tool. The website for Calibre is very informative and I was delighted to see that whatever had to be said could be (and is!) said in easy to understand and correctly punctuated, lucid, and well rounded sentences. A breath of fresh air to know that someone "out there" is still capable of composing clear and comprehensible writing to explain "techy" things to "non-techy" people. Congratulations are in order for Mr John Schember, the author of the manual...

I would recommend that you print the Calibre Quick Start Guide from the website and keep it handy for reference as you go along with the coupling of your reader to the PC. It not only explains what it is all about but even explains why the name of the facility is "calibre", rather than what would be the acceped form in English, viz.; "Calibre", with a capital "C", in view of the fact that it is the name of a facility.

I did follow the instructions found in the manual and lo and behold, everything fell in place and worked out just as it "said on the tin" - as it were - and I even managed to load a couple of (free) books onto my reader. It still remains to be solved how we could register the device for DRM protected literature to be loaded onto it. In the mean time, however, I am pleased to gorge myself on the thousands of available free books, so my money was not altogether wasted and Mr Curry's need not fear that I will ask for a refund.

I hope that this information will be of some use to you and I would be happy to answer any question you might have if you send a PM to me. I feel that I had used up a lot of space posting messages on this thread and it is time to say Goodbye to it.

Yours,
joe-k

01-01-2011, 04:13 PM	#24
joe-k Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Samsung E65	Hello Aileen and Happy New Year to you. I managed to get a step closer to making my Samsung E65 (at least partially) repay the money spent on it. A friend explained that the "caliber", referred to in dogsballs posting has is in fact nothing to do with either a "twelve-bore" nor with the perceived character of a person... I was instructed to google "Calibre" and download their "book management" tool. The website for Calibre is very informative and I was delighted to see that whatever had to be said could be (and is!) said in easy to understand and correctly punctuated, lucid, and well rounded sentences. A breath of fresh air to know that someone "out there" is still capable of composing clear and comprehensible writing to explain "techy" things to "non-techy" people. Congratulations are in order for Mr John Schember, the author of the manual... I would recommend that you print the Calibre Quick Start Guide from the website and keep it handy for reference as you go along with the coupling of your reader to the PC. It not only explains what it is all about but even explains why the name of the facility is "calibre", rather than what would be the acceped form in English, viz.; "Calibre", with a capital "C", in view of the fact that it is the name of a facility. I did follow the instructions found in the manual and lo and behold, everything fell in place and worked out just as it "said on the tin" - as it were - and I even managed to load a couple of (free) books onto my reader. It still remains to be solved how we could register the device for DRM protected literature to be loaded onto it. In the mean time, however, I am pleased to gorge myself on the thousands of available free books, so my money was not altogether wasted and Mr Curry's need not fear that I will ask for a refund. I hope that this information will be of some use to you and I would be happy to answer any question you might have if you send a PM to me. I feel that I had used up a lot of space posting messages on this thread and it is time to say Goodbye to it. Yours, joe-k