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Originally Posted by emellaich
Sirbruce, can you help me understand this? I don't use calibre to deliver blogs, but I thought you would either deliver the blog by a USB connection, or by a web connection -- doesn't Calibre have the capability to allow you to set up a personal web server somehow???? Does Feedbooks.com provide another alternative for reading blogs?
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Kindle comes with a free browser. You can use it to read blogs in "realtime", so to speak, like any page on the Internet, if you want. But that's somewhat slow, since you load each page over the Internet.
Amazon has a subscription service where you read blogs directly as files *on the Kindle itself*. Basically, whenever the feed updates, it sends the update wirelessly to your Kindle, and deletes the old ones off the end. The RSS entries are like a series of articles in a "magazine". It's basically a way to get blogs in a convenient package that downloads automatically; you don't need to go web-surfing.
Calibre has a feature where it can turn RSS feeds from blogs into a "magazine" just like Amazon does. Obviously you need Calibre running on your computer to do this. Now, you can simply download the resulting files from your computer via USB for free. In this way you can read the blogs in a non-realtime manner. For example, before you go to work every day, boot up your computer, run Calibre, download blog entries, USB them to your Kindle, take your Kindle to work, read them at work.
You can also, with Calibre, use a feature to email these blogs wirelessly to your Kindle via Amazon. Amazon charges for this service as I stated before. This has nothing to do with blog subscription fees and is purely an email fee due to the way Calibre is trying to simulate what Amazon does. When it was free, this made some sense; now, I don't see much advantage in it.
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Originally Posted by enarchay
I really don't know on this since I don't read blogs or use feedbooks.com. I'm just trying to educate myself and clear up my confusion.
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I don't read blogs on my Kindle so I really can't explain the fascination in it.