Archive for the tag "ebook"
Calibre reaches 1.0 after nearly 7 years of development
I am fully occupied this week and the next with training my new helpdesk team, so it took me a bit by surprise when Willy Sudiarto Raharjo tweeted that there was a version 1.0 of Calibre since this morning. Kovid Goyal, developer of Calibre, published the news in a blog post. It’s nearly seven years […]
Posted: 23 August, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, epub
Comments: 10
Packages for LibreOffice 3.6.5, calibre and steamclient, and lots of movement on the horizon
Yes, I finally got rid of the flu – but it took a week. I lost some weight (and I am not overweight so I am looking starved now), I still have a bad cough and my lower back muscles are strained and painful because of the continuous coughing. Otherwise I am fine. I had […]
Posted: 2 February, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, epub, libreoffice, steam, vlc
Comments: 20
Digitizing my paperback books
Part one: what do I want? I hinted at this topic in a previous post. I have a big collection of (mostly) paperback Science Fiction books – some hardcover books too. I used to read a lot more in the pre-Internet days, nowadays it’s just during my holidays that I get enough time to read […]
Posted: 4 October, 2011 in Hardware, Me, Software.
Tags: ebook, ocr, scanning
Comments: 12
E-book management on Slackware
Managing your e-book collection In an earlier post, I hinted about a Slackware package I was trying to create for Calibre. The reason being that I bought my wife an e-reader: a Sony PRS650 with a touch screen using infrared instead of a touch-sensitive layer and pearl e-ink technology. Both those features make for an […]
Posted: 19 June, 2011 in Hardware, Slackware, Software.
Tags: ebook, epub, ereader, mobi
Comments: 23