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Another High-calibre Saturday
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 … Continue reading
Arrived!
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 … Continue reading
Shipped!
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, … Continue reading
Estimate
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, … Continue reading
If it’s Saturday, I’m installing calibre
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 … Continue reading
Rekindled
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 … Continue reading
Kindle Jumbotron
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 … Continue reading
A New Weekend Pastime
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 … Continue reading
O’Reilly Kindles!
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 … Continue reading
Calibre install on Fedora 11 Beta
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 … Continue reading
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