DeDRM installs into Calibre as a plugin and just automatically strips DRM as a step in the conversion process. To be clear - I’m an author and piracy deprives me of a reason to write so don’t steal! But it’s annoying that ebooks are locked in to a particular reader (what if that store goes Zune?) and it’s nice to be able to buy a book at the lowest price. I use Apprentice Alf’s de-DRM tools to allow converting and formatting. Calibre can also look up missing metadata, like authors, descriptions, and art. In fact, you can tell Calibre the ebook model you are using and it will automatically convert books to the correct format for that device and use the screensize to format the book to work with your reader. It supports TXT, AZW, MOBI, PRC, PDF, RTF, DOC, EPUB and others. My first use-case is to build and maintain my “pleasure reading” library of ebooks.Ĭalibre can import all the different ebook formats and convert to any other. I buy books that are interesting, I purchase “humble bundles” of programming books, and I subscribe to lists of free books like Bookbub and Centsless Ebooks. The Likebook has a quad-core processor and runs Android, so it’s reasonably fast (it’s just that epaper as a medium has a low refresh rate).
I like the e-paper screen and it’s easy on the eyes.
It’s built to be a straight-up reader, so it’s not as distracting. The Likebook is great for reading things like a good Science Fiction novel. The Kindle is also harder on the eyes and can be distracting (it also has games and email, etc.). The Kindle is great for technical books because its easy to pinch in and out of diagrams. I mostly read technical PDFs and sci-fi books in EPUB or MOBI.
Before that I used a Kobo and I’ve had a Nook and the old Sony Reader. I have an Amazon Kindle Tablet and a Likebook Mars. Calibre is like iTunes for books, in the sense that it allows you to build a library and helps with indexing and completing metadata. One of my favorite open-source programs is Calibre. By Brent Stewart on Thursday, Oct 1, 2020
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