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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Yes, it reads them directly. Don't know why that would be a negative; as long as the formatting is the same there's little difference between a PDF and a MOBI version of the same book.
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The difference is that I know how to make PDFs; can damn near do it in my sleep. Having to install & learn new software is a negative. Not a big one, but notable.
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Well, I have no idea what you're using to do conversions. Calibre is great as it will do the vast majority of conversions without much trouble.
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I'm alternating between Calibre and BookDesigner; BD takes forever, and I haven't figured out how to get chapters to work in Calibre. (This is fairly unimportant for books I convert for myself, but it keeps me from converting works for upload here.)
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If you're that paranoid you shouldn't be doing anything on the Internet.
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There's a difference between "willing to have bits of my identity & actions visible online" and "willing to hand over a list of specific [reading] actions to one particular company."
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They can (so long as they aren't DRMed) and it's pretty clearly stated in the manual although I can understand how some people might be confused.
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Info that's in the manual doesn't convince people to buy the product.
I did note that it's been covered in the "myths" thread, and I'm glad to hear that.
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Sure, I get ya. But I think that you're probably one of the only people in the world who desires to read them not on your computer but via a long, laborious, cut-n-paste process to put them into a PDF file and then dump that PDF file onto an eReader.
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I *prefer* to read them at a computer. I just don't always have one of those with me. The "long, laborious process" is 3-5 minutes for a set of four or five posts with comments.
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Yeah, I think you're so set in your ways that you're not open to doing things in new and better ways.
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I have limited time & energy for learning new methods. All the ereading devices are cutting-edge tech; their software and hardware is changing drastically every year. I'm not going to invest dozens of hours into learning new methods that might be obsolete in a year.
The methods I'm using now, I've been using for years; I'll continue to use them for other projects even if ereading changes.