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Old 01-21-2022, 07:25 PM   #1
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Wolfing down ebooks during lockdown? You might want to check out Calibre, the Swiss Army ebook tool
When audiobooks just take too darn long...

In this week's edition of our column on free and open-source software, El Reg takes a look at Calibre, which converts almost any file type into almost any other file type, so you can read whatever you want, wherever you want, no matter what format it's in.

It's free and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

There's more to ebooks than the Kindle, of course, with devices such as the Kobo, Nook, and Onyx Boox. The author's own Sony Reader still worked fine when I gave it to a friend a year ago.

Buying consumable content online for immediate consumption is wonderfully convenient, but the trouble is that you can lose it again just as easily, or the company can shut down its store. It's worth learning how to download your digital content – and once you have it on a computer, what you can do with it suddenly expands.
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Old 01-21-2022, 08:05 PM   #2
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Old 01-21-2022, 08:30 PM   #3
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Swiss army ebook tool is a pretty good description.
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Swiss army ebook tool is a pretty good description.
My favourite is "the Swiss army chainsaw for ebooks". Haven't seen it for a while.
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Old 01-21-2022, 10:57 PM   #5
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nice! thanks for the heads up
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