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chinareader · 10-05-2011, 02:23 AM

hello everyone!
I'm an American currently living in China. I bought my Kindle a few months ago after not being able to read a new book for a couple of years. There's only couple foreign bookstores here and I'm disabled and no this place is not wheelchair friendly - so getting around to buy some books is been out of the question..

the Kindle is the best purchase I've ever made. I actually haven't used it much at all, because I'm swamped with work and other things that much, but I was able to use it a couple times when I was in the hospital. amazing.

of course, now the Kindle is turning into something that's just becoming a chore to deal with mostly because of my ignorance I'm sure.

I'm planning to go back in the hospital for couple more surgeries and so of course recently I've been trying to load up my Kindle. here of course comes the problem. I ran into these forums several times so searching for solutions - everyone seems so helpful. this isn't exact the specific forum but this is why I'm here so I will go ahead and post my pride problem because I see others have done the same.

two problems:

pdf conversion issues - duokan worth it?
Size of Calibre library - not enough room for duplicate copies

1)
I've read the sticky about PDF files of course.

My problem is I have several PDF articles that I want to read. is it worth installing duokan from here. I'm really afraid to mess up my Kindle and I'm not a hacker at all, but reading PDFs on the thing is painfully frustrating.
I've read enough here and on the Calibre site to know that converting from PDF to a MOBI file is probably not a great idea and can produce mixed results. I've done it a couple of times and it works well. But because I'm trying to load up in advance quickly, I really don't have time to check The results of each one of the files I want to convert. Do you think it's worth installing duokan for this problem simply for the better PDF rendering?

2) I've installed Calibre, but it wants to make a local copy of everything. Is this is is absolutely necessary? I really don't have enough room on my hard drive(SSD) for it to copy everything. What would be the danger of having it just use a library that contains all of my downloaded books(external drive)? or is there way for to load many things onto my Kindle from my download location without it copying them locally? (I have a bunch of books that I will load that I don't know whether or not I will read so I just want to load up with several options for when I'm sitting in the hospital)

thanks to everyone on this forum, I've already found some great advice. Hopefully someone out there can help me.

10-05-2011, 02:23 AM	#1
chinareader Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Beijing, China Device: Kindle3	Hello from China & a question (of course) hello everyone! I'm an American currently living in China. I bought my Kindle a few months ago after not being able to read a new book for a couple of years. There's only couple foreign bookstores here and I'm disabled and no this place is not wheelchair friendly - so getting around to buy some books is been out of the question.. the Kindle is the best purchase I've ever made. I actually haven't used it much at all, because I'm swamped with work and other things that much, but I was able to use it a couple times when I was in the hospital. amazing. of course, now the Kindle is turning into something that's just becoming a chore to deal with mostly because of my ignorance I'm sure. I'm planning to go back in the hospital for couple more surgeries and so of course recently I've been trying to load up my Kindle. here of course comes the problem. I ran into these forums several times so searching for solutions - everyone seems so helpful. this isn't exact the specific forum but this is why I'm here so I will go ahead and post my pride problem because I see others have done the same. two problems: pdf conversion issues - duokan worth it? Size of Calibre library - not enough room for duplicate copies 1) I've read the sticky about PDF files of course. My problem is I have several PDF articles that I want to read. is it worth installing duokan from here. I'm really afraid to mess up my Kindle and I'm not a hacker at all, but reading PDFs on the thing is painfully frustrating. I've read enough here and on the Calibre site to know that converting from PDF to a MOBI file is probably not a great idea and can produce mixed results. I've done it a couple of times and it works well. But because I'm trying to load up in advance quickly, I really don't have time to check The results of each one of the files I want to convert. Do you think it's worth installing duokan for this problem simply for the better PDF rendering? 2) I've installed Calibre, but it wants to make a local copy of everything. Is this is is absolutely necessary? I really don't have enough room on my hard drive(SSD) for it to copy everything. What would be the danger of having it just use a library that contains all of my downloaded books(external drive)? or is there way for to load many things onto my Kindle from my download location without it copying them locally? (I have a bunch of books that I will load that I don't know whether or not I will read so I just want to load up with several options for when I'm sitting in the hospital) thanks to everyone on this forum, I've already found some great advice. Hopefully someone out there can help me.