MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Troubleshooting Converting books from Public Library

Pat.Bloomfield · 04-08-2011, 04:09 PM

[FONT="Arial"][/FON
I hope members of this forum will forgive me for a simple question that may well have been asked before.
I recently purchased a Kindle (the Wi-Fi version) and, with hope in my heart, downloaded a book from the Toronto Public Library in the belief that Calibre would convert it to a format that my Kindle can read. I picked Shroud for a Nightingale, an Adam Dalgleish detective story, added it to the list of my Calibre main page, and clicked "convert individual book". The immediate reply was that the book is in a format the Calibre cannot read. Yet I had asked for the download in the E-pub format.
Now the Library tells me that E-books it lends cannot be read on a Kindle because of restrictions by Amazon. But I had read that there ways to circumvent this problem using a good conversion program. And I had never expected a problem in a download to a computer since that is the way so many E-books are read.
Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody guide me?
Pat.Bloomfield.

04-08-2011, 04:09 PM	#1
Pat.Bloomfield Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle	Converting books from Public Library [FONT="Arial"][/FON I hope members of this forum will forgive me for a simple question that may well have been asked before. I recently purchased a Kindle (the Wi-Fi version) and, with hope in my heart, downloaded a book from the Toronto Public Library in the belief that Calibre would convert it to a format that my Kindle can read. I picked Shroud for a Nightingale, an Adam Dalgleish detective story, added it to the list of my Calibre main page, and clicked "convert individual book". The immediate reply was that the book is in a format the Calibre cannot read. Yet I had asked for the download in the E-pub format. Now the Library tells me that E-books it lends cannot be read on a Kindle because of restrictions by Amazon. But I had read that there ways to circumvent this problem using a good conversion program. And I had never expected a problem in a download to a computer since that is the way so many E-books are read. Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody guide me? Pat.Bloomfield.