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Old 09-18-2023, 05:12 PM   #1891
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I don’t like caliber ever since Amazon won’t let you have the old desktop version I can no longer strip the DRM and I find the caliber to be a waste of time. It just takes too much effort and somehow I got so many duplicates. I just don’t have time to delete it. I haven’t touched caliber in over a year.
As you have several eink Kindles, you won't need the desktop app at all to strip the DRM; you can use the Download & Transfer option to do that. Of course, if you don't want to strip the DRM, that's your choice.

As to duplicates, I'd have a pile of them if I didn't use Calibre. I could never remember what I've already bought and what not, and as I buy from several different stores, it would take a lot of time to check every one of them every time I want to buy something.
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Old 09-18-2023, 05:24 PM   #1892
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A vent & rant is about things that affect you. Are you really saying that people can't have opinions that differ from your own, because that offends you? Huh. There are a lot of political movements that have that as their raison d'être.

In other words, no one's forcing you to read series books out of order. We've all done it, though, even if only in the misty paper past when you could only read what you could get and we've all managed to muscle on. My own opinion is that with some series, you might be better served by starting a book or two in, once the author's found his/her feet. As with Whose Body?. There's also a critical difference between a series and a serial. One's more or less standalone, the other is not.

But there. I know you're only doing this for attention and now you've got it.
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Old 09-18-2023, 05:27 PM   #1893
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I don’t like caliber ever since Amazon won’t let you have the old desktop version I can no longer strip the DRM and I find the caliber to be a waste of time. It just takes too much effort and somehow I got so many duplicates. I just don’t have time to delete it. I haven’t touched caliber in over a year.
It's calibre, not caliber. I say this because getting it wrong means a failed search.
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Old 09-18-2023, 07:54 PM   #1894
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I don’t like caliber ever since Amazon won’t let you have the old desktop version I can no longer strip the DRM and I find the caliber to be a waste of time. It just takes too much effort and somehow I got so many duplicates. I just don’t have time to delete it. I haven’t touched caliber in over a year.
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Old 09-18-2023, 08:09 PM   #1895
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I don’t like caliber ever since Amazon won’t let you have the old desktop version I can no longer strip the DRM and I find the caliber to be a waste of time. It just takes too much effort and somehow I got so many duplicates. I just don’t have time to delete it. I haven’t touched caliber in over a year.
Sorry but the workarounds for removing DRM from Amazon purchases are still working including being able to import KFX from your desktop app. If you were stripping DRM from KU loans, I have no sympathy for you.

As for getting duplicates, to me, that is a PEBKAC error.

For me managing my 13,000+ ebooks, calibre is an invaluable tool. And just by the way, calibre is the correct spelling.
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Old 09-18-2023, 10:32 PM   #1896
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I don’t like caliber ever since Amazon won’t let you have the old desktop version I can no longer strip the DRM and I find the caliber to be a waste of time. It just takes too much effort and somehow I got so many duplicates. I just don’t have time to delete it. I haven’t touched caliber in over a year.
Is that why you make a point of misspelling its name? It's calibre, not caliber.
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Old 09-19-2023, 07:42 AM   #1897
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How about an anti-rant? ebook novels that have time/date shifts in the story and have the time/date in chapter headings and TOC. Kudos to the author/publisher for doing this.
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Old 09-19-2023, 08:45 AM   #1898
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I have a new rant. People spelling calibre as caliber.
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Old 09-19-2023, 08:53 AM   #1899
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Old 09-19-2023, 09:11 AM   #1900
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The stupidity of Amazon. These two quotes from an ebook on Amazon, one directly below the other:

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Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices.
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This title is not supported on Kindle E-readers.
On Android and Fire tablets, the latest version of the Kindle app is required.
On PC & Mac, the latest version of the Kindle app is required.
So you can read it on a Kindle eReader, but it is not supported on a Kindle ereader.

And when you call tech support, you find out it also can't be read on Kindle for PC.
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It's calibre, not caliber. I say this because getting it wrong means a failed search.
Expurgated -ed. Take a pill. When typing on an ipad the spell check automatically changes the spelling of calibre to caliber.
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And when you call tech support, you find out it also can't be read on Kindle for PC.
In most cases "The latest version of the Kindle app is required" actually means "The latest and greatest DRM is required." You may need to wait for the rollout of the next release of Kindle for PC with new and improved DRM.

I am curious what book this is. Would you mind sharing?
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Expurgated -ed. Take a pill. When typing on an ipad the spell check automatically changes the spelling of calibre to caliber.
And before you hit submit, you go back and fix the spelling of calibre.
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I am curious what book this is. Would you mind sharing?
He mentioned this one in another thread.
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