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Old 02-10-2010, 08:48 PM   #1
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From N'Awlins
Greetings from New Orleans.

I am new to ebooks, currently using the free Kindle for PC Reader. (Can't afford two Kindles or two of just about any other ereader, as my husband would want one, too.)

We've been reading from the Baen Free Library quite a bit. We have a serious collection of hard copy books (around 12,000) and am running out of space for them. Regrettably, a great deal of what would be significantly useful to have in e-book format isn't available that way -- history research, travel research, etc. It would be really handy to have an e-reader with everything I'm currently working on so I can look things up without having a book avalanche.

I've DL and installed (and donated to) Calibre, which works nicely, but I have determined that filtered HTML derived from a Word XP document is not formatted as cleanly in the e-book format as it was in Word. Toward the end of correcting this formatting, I've DL and installed Sigil, but can't find an instruction file to determine how to import text into it. Otherwise, it may be straightforward. At least, I hope it will be, as I know nothing of HTML.

One problem with Calibre is that the fractions 1/3 and 2/3 don't convert to ebook format from some formulae. Not sure how to correct this, as I'm using common fonts in Word -- Times-Roman and Garamond.

All of this should probably be posted in separate sections, but that's basically why I wandered in.
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Old 02-10-2010, 08:56 PM   #2
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Welcome to MobileRead, Marilynx.

Are you aware we have over 15,000 ebooks here for you to read also? Since you are using the Kindle for pc app, you'd want the mobipocket format......

Just click on "ebooks", choose the mobipocket format, (not the mobipocket guide), then you can look by author, or by genre thru the pull down menu.

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Old 02-10-2010, 08:57 PM   #3
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Wonderful and Welcome!

Be sure and check out all the classics at project guttenberg and google books. Many libraries also loan books in both mobi and epub format that you can read on the pc with the appropriate readers installed.

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Old 02-10-2010, 10:15 PM   #4
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Old 02-10-2010, 11:18 PM   #5
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Thanks for the welcome -- I had more to comment on, but the Forum logged me out and I lost it.
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Old 02-11-2010, 12:08 PM   #8
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Old 02-13-2010, 01:15 AM   #9
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Hello Marilynx and welcome to MobileRead! Calibre is a great program, maybe have a look at the Calibre forum.
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Old 02-13-2010, 03:05 AM   #10
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