[KenW]

Hi

I am glad to come across this forum as I am taking some steps to upgrade my mobile ebook reading situation and know I will need some help.

I am from Canada, Vancouver Island British Columbia to be more specific. My home is there but I travel quite a bit, more now that I am retired.

To this point, my reading habits have been fed by borrowing ebooks using Libby from my local public library. That has been great and I plan to continue to use it but so often the titles I want are subject to a long wait.

I want to explore collecting ebooks that I can keep for future reference and read at my leisure and pick up without a wait. I prefer ebooks that I read on the screen over audio books.

I keep a lot of stuff on a home server. It runs in Debian Linux using the Freedombox server package. I have just installed the Calibre app. I am at the very start of finding my way around in it. At this point I have no books in my library.

I don't use any ebook readers (by that I mean kindle, kobo and the like) but use a laptop or more often an android phone for my reading.

At the moment, I am reading a particular title that is due back before I will finish it and I would like to buy a copy so I have it and to support the author with a sale. I am sorting out where to buy an ebook, what format I should be looking for and then will need to figure out the process of storing it in calibre so I can call it up to read in android or on a laptop.

I also see that calibre can be used to read news. I have subscriptions to various news publications and will be checking out whether calibre is the way to read those sources.

I hope to find information in these forums and in the online manual for calibre to get me rolling. Like every new thing I set up in the online world for my use, my learning curve seems to be steeper than some others experience, so I will be asking for help along the way to be sure.

In the meantime, hello to everyone here.

Cheers
KenW