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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Good question. I don't have a Kobo and haven't used one, so I don't have a good feel for it
The Kobo, like other dedicated readers, will have the code to display eBooks in ROM. The question is what code Kobo uses.
ePub and Mobipocket are both documented formats (though Amazon has made additions to the Mobipocket format that I don't believe are documented.)
Different people have written code to display those formats, based on the specs.
It's one reason I said the display of an ePub file you saw on a Nook vs FBReader or CoolReader wouldn't necessarily be identical. They all use different code. FBReader, for example, says it has limited support for Mobi files. In practice, this means it can't display Mobi files with DRM, because it can't decrypt them. I don't care, as I don't get books with DRM, and it's handled every Mobi file I've tossed at it.
(And if you have the right plugins installed, Calibre can remove DRM for you. They are not shipped with Calibre because simply possessing them is illegal in some places, but they are easy to find and install.)
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Thanks for all the great explanations, Dennis. I think I'll be staying away from Kobo for mobi. I think I'm going to need an epub ereader and a mobi ereader. On the DRM front I've got this book with DRM that I simply can't read on Linux. I tried the Adobe DRM thing. That was a joke. How do people read DRM books on Linux? Is there a way of doing it legally? One thing I did learn from my experience trying to read the DRM book was I'm never making any of my books DRM!
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If you have a PC you want to read eBooks on, and you don't have Calibre, what do you use? It will depend on the book's format, but you'll need a third-party app.
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I have this app thing on Mozilla (see screenshot). I honestly don't know the name of it. I'd use that or Sigil. I stay away from Calibre making ebooks because I hear Amazon rejects books made with Calibre. I think the Calibre Ebook reader is quite nice. Btw, on that screenshot, do you have any idea why I'm geting that black line in the address bar?
Thanks for the great explanation of wi-fi. I imagine I'd be sideloading all my books so wifi is not goig to be a must-have feature for me. And thanks for the root explanation. I've done that a couple of times in the command line (sudo...) and I think I've been lucky I didn't wreck things entirely. (When you start out in Linux all these forums are giving you all these commands to do stuff and I would say 80% of them involve going root.)
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