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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Also, besides being able to read non DRM'd LRF files, what exactly does calibre gain you then?
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Of course, many Sony users are buying .LIT files, "liberating" them and converting them to LRF which is the mainstay of calibre.
The biggest thing it gained you when it first came out was the ability to put ebooks on your PRS-500 which did NOT mount as an external storage device on Mac/Linux. So, the only option before calibre was to use an SD card to move data from a Mac/Linux to a PRS-500.
But, even though I primarily use my Kindle now... for the ebooks that I get from places other than the Kindle store I use calibre to organize all those files. It allows for tags, sorting, searching etc. And, the newest version stores the ebooks on the file system only storing metadata in the database. So, your ebook files are organized nicely on your hard drive in an Author => Book folder hierarcy that makes it easy to find the file you want to transer to the device with explorer/finder.
Yes, you can put .txt ebooks in it. I've done that. Read the free Firefly ebook .txt file on the review Jetbook that I had.
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