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Originally Posted by speedlever
Just to give you an idea how quick the process works, I just bought a book from Borders and opened the ACSM file in ADE (this stores the file on my computer.)
I then cut the ebook and pasted it where I keep my ebook files (because I don't like to store data on my C drive... which is the only option ADE allows.) This takes but seconds to do and is not required, but is part of my workflow.
I then opened calibre and used the add books button to bring the ebook into calibre. This happened almost as quickly as it took to click on the button. I then used the Connect/share button to convert and email the ebook to my K3 which took 1:33.
For the record I'm using Win7/64 on an old Core2duo E6600 I built 4 years ago running 6 Gigs ram with an 80 GB SSD for the OS and a 320Gb 7200 rpm (gettin' full!) data drive. This is hardly state-of-the-art hardware. |
or just buy an ePub supported device and drag and drop
I mean seriously who want to go through stripping the DRM every single time you buy a non Amazon ebook. and besides there is no gurantee the format will come out nice and neat. and please don't say that is does. My coworker who owns a kindle would flat our refute your claim He has about 50 Stephen King books that are basically unreadable do to format conversion error. Some books are one paragraph long, no breaks. Others have breaks in mid sentence and are all jumbled. Now to be fair a good portion did come out just fine but a sign. amount also got butchered.
Too many great options in terms of great ereading devices available out there right now to have to go through a "process". To me there is nothing compelling about the Kindle that you can't find elsewhere that would make me want to go through that every time. not worth it. JMHO.