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Old 01-08-2009, 07:03 AM   #1
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Using Calibre as a reader

Now I do not know if this sounds dumb, but I am using Calibre as ebookreader on my Aspire One with Win XP.

I have only free or undrmed ebooks on that netbook and imported everything, mobis, Lits, htmls, epubs and so on into Calibre. Then I view them with the integrated e-book viewer.

What's really great is the fact that I can make a full screen view and rotate the screen so that I can read the ebooks much like real books, turning pages with space button.

The viewer interface opens all those books and renders them really well, even remembering the last position. Now if it was a little easier to open the books (right click plus clicking view is not really fast). Or is there a keyboard shortcut to simplify opening the books in read mode?

Till now, I mostly used Calibre for ebook creation and conversion!

Edit: I found it. I gather I was a bit blind or it was just too obvious. Pushing V opens the books!

Kovid, did you ever think of "marketing" Calibre as a reading software? The rendering of the epubs is way better than with ADE, anyway.

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