On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:17 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > > But be warned, Calibre is NOT a "mac" application, and you *will* find it > annoying. It does work, though I found it very slow and very stupid (getting > proper names for books (all gutenberg press, naturally) is tedious and > annoying at times.
It is ugly and could be more user-friendly, but I'm finding it to be very powerful. This might sound silly but what I like most about it is I can have a single title in multiple formats and it manages that under the single title. I have several PDF files that I also want to have in EPUB so I can use Stanza on my iPod Touch. >> It absolutely converts PDF to ePub - and can convert countless other formats >> as well. > > Yep, it pretty much converts everything. > >> In fact, although of course I have no personal experience doing so, if you >> have these alleged python scripts that strip DRM from Kindle and other book >> formats, it can even subsequently convert those to ePub. I suppose if I had >> that tool I'd have a lot of converted books, but alas, I live in the USA, so >> I don't, naturally. > > Naturally. I too, living in the US, have no experience with these scripts. I > do have quote a few kindle books though (I bought one, the rest where free, > but heavily laden with DRM). > >> Some of those python scripts might even integrate to Calibre as a >> pre-processing plugin. I wouldn't know, though, other than I think I read >> some comment on some forum somewhere to that effect. > > I would guess, but it's only a guess of course, that searching for calibre > python drm might point someone (living in some other country) to more > information? I would not, myself, highlight those three words and right-click > and select "Search Google" because it is quite possible the mere act of > searching is illegal under the terms of the DMCA. And we all know that the > DMCA is our friend and there to help and protect us from the evil Somali > pirate arab terrorist commies. Some people don't own the actual Kindle device, but do read books purchased from the Amazon.com store using an iPod Touch. If I were in a more permissive country and used such a device I would type perhaps export kindle iphone into any popular search engine. Purely as an academic exercise of course. Sometimes I read how to perform brain surgery but would never actually do it either. John -- John Mayson <[email protected]> Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
