What do you open .mobi files with??

[Beartooth]

	Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to 
stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora-
native ebook reader!

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

[Dr. Tibor Attila Anca]

Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 14.03.2018, 20:18 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
>  Fedora-
>  native ebook reader!
>   
I always use calibre. It isn't just a reader, more a converter and a
library manager. It may seem bloated, but I really like its features and
abilities when it comes to handle different ebook formats and push mobi-
files to my amazon account.

Regards
Tibor
-- 

Anca Tibor

I use OpenSource!

[stan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:18:08 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:

>  	Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I
>  try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be
>  some Fedora- native ebook reader! 
package fbreader

[stan]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:45:43 -0700
stan <stanl-fedorauser(a)vfemail.net&gt; wrote:

>  On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:18:08 +0000 (UTC)
>  Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > 	Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I
>  > try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be
>  > some Fedora- native ebook reader!  
>  
>  package fbreader 
After I sent this I checked the date, and this is a very old package.
It still works, though.  You can probably go here, 
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5070
and get the last version that successfully compiled.  Then install it
using 
dnf -C install fbreader-[version, etc.]

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 20:18 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>  	Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to 
>  stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora-
>  native ebook reader! 
Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format
conversion, library maintenance, etc.

poc

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 +0000
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>  Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including
> format
>  conversion, library maintenance, etc. 
And the really important bit is that you can get calibre
plugins to strip DRM from books so you are no longer
forced to keep your ebooks organized primarily by which
source you bought them from. (And you'll still be able
to read the book you bought and paid for when the
publisher gets into a spat with the seller).

Here's my (few years old now) take on the usefulness
of calibre: http://tomhorsley.com/game/calibre.html

[fred roller]

>  I always use calibre. 
+1

-- Fred

What do you open .mobi files with?? SOLVED: Calibre

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:24:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:

>  On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  
> > Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format
> > conversion, library maintenance, etc.
>  
>  And the really important bit is that you can get calibre plugins to
>  strip DRM from books so you are no longer forced to keep your ebooks
>  organized primarily by which source you bought them from. (And you'll
>  still be able to read the book you bought and paid for when the
>  publisher gets into a spat with the seller).
>  
>  Here's my (few years old now) take on the usefulness of calibre:
>  http://tomhorsley.com/game/calibre.html 
	Thanks  much to all!  Dnf got me Calibre and all its support 
troops in a flash, and it spotted my plugged-in Kindle immediately.

	I'm going to have to work on configuring it, I think, because it 
imagines I want to connect to Amazon, which I almost never do. (We have a 
Prime account; but abebooks.com is often better, especially for older, 
out-of-print books.) But that's a detail, or so I trust.

	OT : I've just bought several copies of one of the best books I 
know (and I'm a bookworm's bookworm), Plagues and peoples by William H. 
McNeill, to hand out locally -- once I figure out how, under lockdown. I 
want to recommend the ebook form, too, -- once I make sure of a clean 
copy -- to people who don't live locally, including some who don't even 
run Linux. <grin>

	Thanks again! Excelsior!
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

What do you open .mobi files with?? SOLVED: Calibre

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 20:02 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>  On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:24:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  
>  > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:25 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Calibre is the go-to package for all your ebook needs, including format
>  > > conversion, library maintenance, etc.
>  > 
>  > And the really important bit is that you can get calibre plugins to
>  > strip DRM from books so you are no longer forced to keep your ebooks
>  > organized primarily by which source you bought them from. (And you'll
>  > still be able to read the book you bought and paid for when the
>  > publisher gets into a spat with the seller).
>  > 
>  > Here's my (few years old now) take on the usefulness of calibre:
>  > http://tomhorsley.com/game/calibre.html
>  
>  	Thanks  much to all!  Dnf got me Calibre and all its support 
>  troops in a flash, and it spotted my plugged-in Kindle immediately.
>  
>  	I'm going to have to work on configuring it, I think, because it 
>  imagines I want to connect to Amazon, which I almost never do. (We have a 
>  Prime account; but abebooks.com is often better, especially for older, 
>  out-of-print books.) But that's a detail, or so I trust. 
Calibre can interface with several online bookstores, not just Amazon.
See under "Metadata Download" in Preferences.

poc

What do you open .mobi files with?? SOLVED: Calibre

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:19:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
	[....]
> > 	I'm going to have to work on configuring it, I think,
> because it
> > imagines I want to connect to Amazon, which I almost never do. (We have
> > a Prime account; but abebooks.com is often better, especially for
> > older, out-of-print books.) But that's a detail, or so I trust.
>  
>  Calibre can interface with several online bookstores, not just Amazon.
>  See under "Metadata Download" in Preferences. 
	Took me a minute to spot the Preferences icon, but I'm VERY 
impressed. Thanks again!
-- 
Beartooth Bookworm, Curmudgeon On Line

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:53:53 -0700, stan wrote:

>  On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:45:43 -0700 stan
> <stanl-fedorauser(a)vfemail.net&gt;
>  wrote: 
> > package fbreader
>  
>  After I sent this I checked the date, and this is a very old package.
>  It still works, though.  You can probably go here,
>  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5070 and get
>  the last version that successfully compiled.  Then install it using dnf
>  -C install fbreader-[version, etc.] 
	Having lived through more dependency hells than I want to 
remember, I let dnf give me fbreader-0.99.4-4.fc31.x86_64; it launches 
all right, and I'll play with it, too. Many thanks!
-- 
Beartooth Bookworm, Curmudgeon On Line