[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Shades67

Thank you Dennis Saving this information to refer to. At this point I kept my 7" Kindle pretty clean with out a lot of apps on it and read books and used it to do internet at the hospital and chemo lounge for hubby. I do not even remember the size if it. I think 16GB.

You're welcome.

The Kindle my friend sent to me does hold an SD card. I think she said it is 128GB.

Is that the Kindle Fire unit you were mentioning?

The original Kindle was a loss leader to prime the pump, and create a market for the eBooks Amazon wanted to sell. Once the market was established, Kindle apps began appearing for other devices. Amazon simply wants to sell you the books, so it's fine by them if you don't use an actual Kindle to display them.

The Kindle Fire has the same underlying purpose, but the content is video and audio. (Amazon has subsidiaries producing exclusive content in both areas only available through Amazon.) Vidoe files tend to be large, so a large external card to hold stuff stored locally makes sense.

I have a 32GB card in my tablet, but that's a limit imposed by the platform. 32GB is the maximum size it supports. (That's not a problem, as the content I store locally is unlikely to ever hit that limit.)

The Nook is 16 GB and I do plan to send it on to Mom. NO I am not positive how to clear it. I was thinking to look up taking it back to factory settings. Then setting it back up in her name and address. Get her an email address then ship it off and let my brother and sister help her go as far as she wants with it. It is all in my mind to do but I have not acted on it yet. I do not have anything on it I would mind loosing.

Restoring to factory default settings is what I'd do in that case. It would clear the personal data, and be a blank slate your mother could set up as she wished.

Well I did d/l Calabre on my Nook but never got to play with it much. Now it is going away so I will see about loading it on the new RCA for my books. I also found the FB-reader for windows for that tablet. So anxious for winter to arrive so I have more time to play with my toys.

Er, Calibre doesn't run on the Nook. It runs on a desktop host, and communicates with the tablet, to do things like put books on it.

The Nook uses a version of Android as the underlying OS, but I don't believe anyone has built Calibre to run on Android. (That would be a challenge, for technical reasons I won't bore you with.)

You might actually be able to install and run Calibre on the RCA tablet, but I'd need to know more about the device to be certain. The bigger question is whether Calibre running on a PC could communicate with the RCA tablet and put books on it. That's a question to ask on the Calibre forum.

I did have some PDF on my 7" Kindle but found I did not need them. An office program would be good and I seriously considered open office for the RCA. I need to chart hubbies days of foods and how he is doing. Then I would not have to print it all out for the dietitian. She can just read it off the tablet.

I have LibreOffice here. It's a fork of the original Open Office code. Open Office began as Star Office from a German vendor. Sun Microsystems bought it and made it open source. Sun ran into hard times and was acquired by Oracle. A variety of folks didn't trust Oracle's long term intentions for Open Office, forked the code, and called the result LibreOffice. I have an older (2007) version of MS Office here, but normally use LibreOffice if I need that functionality. It reads and writes MS Office files. (The only part of MS Office I actually use is Publisher for the odd DTP project.) LibreOffice and Open Office are also cross platform. I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux, and have LibreOffice up under both.

There are a number of PDF viewers. The one I use under Windows is an open source product called SumatraPDF. Aside from PDFs, is also displays ePub, Mobi, DjVu, CHM, and CBR/CBZ files, so it's a possible alternate as an eBook viewer.

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Dennis