calibre, an e-book reader’s best companion, has been upgraded to v. 0.6.5.
In keeping with my history of tips and tricks for installing calibre on Fedora, I offer the following, based on the install I just completed. I’m running Fedora 11, and this worked for me.
I had to install
poppler-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
to get calibre to install and have [...]
The Kindle DX arrived, on schedule. The initial charging of the battery is done, the “Welcome Aboard” letter from His Bezosness has been read.
I’ve trained MLB in the usage of the Kindle 2. She’s diggin’ it.
Initial reactions:
It’s incredibly easy to share books between the two devices. The DX has retrieved content bought on the [...]
The Big Ol’ Kindle DX, from Amazon, is on the truck:
Ship Carrier: UPS
Tracking Number: 1Z7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Status: In transit
Order #: nnn-mmmmmmm-zzzzzzz
Shipment Date: June 10, 2009
Destination: RESTON, VA, US
Estimated Arrival: June 12, 2009
Hmm… new Kindle, WordPress upgrade, multibooting Fedora on a test laptop.
The geekiness thickens…
-k-
From Amazon:
Items not yet shipped:
Delivery estimate: June 12, 2009
* 1 of: Amazon Kindle DX Leather Cover
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
* 1 of: Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
And [...]
calibre 0.5.11 now runs strong and tall on my Linux laptop. I wonder how much I’ll really need to reformat personal content after the Kindle DX is on-board. I think the DX is going to handle my PDF manuals just fine.
I think, though, I’ll keep up with calibre. Who knows? I may hit some [...]
I’m on order. The potential of the Kindle DX was just too great to leave unexplored. Having manuals, usually in PDF, handy on one easy to use device will be a good thing. Nearly all vendors distribute their documentation in PDF; even when you get a CD with the documents, they’re PDFs. [...]
I never have been behind the curve so fast; I’m still digging my Amazon Kindle 2, and now there’s this new thing called the Kindle DX.
I have no quarrel with the screen size, quality, and ease of use of the Kindle 2. The DX has entered the mix in an effort to better render newspapers, [...]
April 26, 2009 – 12:00 pm
That would be reinstalling calibre. The calibre maintainer is not in the least shy about releasing frequent updates. Considering the number of different readers, operating systems, and ebook formats that he’s supporting, I’m not shocked at this. In fact, it’s encouraging; much better to have a constantly changing and improving product than [...]
April 26, 2009 – 11:36 am
O’Reilly, purveyors of books for geeks, programmers, and sysadmins, have made available 160 or so Kindle-friendly titles, with a promise of adding more. The Kindle offerings are available sans DRM directly from the Amazon Kindle store.
I bought a couple of cheaper titles in mobi format direct from O’Reilly and uploaded them to the Kindle. I [...]
I just completed a from scratch, from source install of calibre on my Fedora 11 beta laptop. As documented a couple of posts back, the laptop was installed using the Fedora 11 live USB install method. Here’s what I had to add, to get calibre to build and install:
For building calibre, I needed [...]
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