The Random Ebooks Questions Post

[elf]

Ask your questions! Get answers! Maybe even useful answers!

Ask anything! Ask about ereaders, or filetypes, or conversion methods, or where to find books, or which authors don't like ebooks, or what software works on which computers, or anything else ebook-related. Preferably, put the question, or part of it, in the subject line. That way, the questions will be easy to find, and new readers who show up can see if their question has been asked before.

Feel free to post links to your journal where you've spelled out your questions in detail (or just make a new post here; it's totally fine to make a long post about "thinking about ebook readers; what's the pros & cons of these two?")

Answer questions! If you know about a certain aspect of ebookery, jump in with answers!

Comments

Re: Downloading and reading a Nook/epub ebook with FBReader and or Calibre on my laptop?

[elf]

Nook is indeed epub. (Now. It may not have been when this post was first made; they acquired the "ereader" format from Fictionwise and were using it - or its DRM - for a while. But everything is now epub.)

I recommend testing the process on another book first. Calibre's De-DRM plugin still requires Adobe Digital Editions to be installed; I don't know if you can put that on a FreeBSD laptop. (Err. Windows emulator thing, maybe? Or Wine?)

Amazon's kindle books will also work through Calibre's de-DRM, but you need an older version of the Amazon kindle reader software to make it work. (There are links, somewhere. And you have to turn off automatic updates. Works fine after that.) I would not trust Apple or Google either.

Re: Downloading and reading a Nook/epub ebook with FBReader and or Calibre on my laptop?

[pauamma]

Thanks. Wine is an option for me, if it comes to that.