10-24-2011, 11:24 AM
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Hi! K2 - freebie book lover here.
Hi, I'm Allison, and I'm a freebie addict. (Hi, Allison)
I have a K2, and have been using almost entirely Amazon services for my reading. I have several thousand books in my archive. This has become unwieldy and problematic. For example, when I look at the archive on my K2, more than half of my books don't show up. I wonder if anyone else has this problem... So far I haven't met anyone. Recently, in addition to the joys of free books, I have discovered the joys of lendle.me. And library lending. This has compounded my organizational issues. In addition, since I am reading more now than I have at any point in my life, I am interested in some type of book journaling. More specific about me: I use a K2, with most books from Amazon (currently ~9k books). I am in the process of moving as many out of the Amazon ecosystem as is feasible. I'm at the beginning of the first step - getting books from gutenberg that are public domain, and organizing these in calibre. I am hoping that this will make my Kindle archives more accessible, and also, streamline the process some, if I need to replace my kindle. Next, I will look at other sources of free books, and see if others can be replaced that way. Free book website suggestions are very welcome! I have 2 roommates, also, that I'd like to be able to share content with. One with a Sony reader, another with a Nook. And, I'd like to be able to read from my computer (a windows xp - soon to be windows 7, and an ubuntu box). I don't yet plan to "liberate" my Amazon content, but the next time I have to re-download to a new kindle, I may change my mind. I am working with calibre mobile right now, putting my replacement content on a stick. So why am I here? To learn about calibre, free books, and book journaling. To find a community of readers, and maybe even a few people who don't look at me like I'm nuts, when I say that I have 9k books, and I'm pretty interested in most of them! |
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10-24-2011, 06:58 PM
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Hi Allison and welcome to MobileRead. Be sure and check out all our free books in our Patricia Clark Memorial Library
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10-25-2011, 02:43 AM
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Hello and welcome to MR!
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10-30-2011, 04:20 PM
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 calibre creator, Kovid Goyal, is extremely responsive in the calibre forums, as are all the calibre developers! If you haven't already, visiting there would provide some assistance. calibre itself can be found here. Along with the addition of the plugin 'Kindle Collections' designed by forum member meme, the creation of a storage system e.g. collections on kindles is spot on! 
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11-04-2011, 09:58 AM
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