Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2324 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/16/2009 4:57 AM, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 Constantinos Galilei wrote:
> > [...]
> > > What it doesn't say is what reader to use :-?
> > >
> > > The wikipedia mentions Calibre, EPUBReader (an add on for FF), FBReader,
> > > and Okular - it is not clear how to create them. What has Novell used?
> >
> > Awesome information and questions.  Thank you.  I think I'll look into it
> > myself.
>
> Calibre is available from my openSUSE buildserver repository, see
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.2&p=1&q=calibre
>
> Unfortunately, it is not available in openSUSE 11.2. I was a bit too late.

This is a pretty intriguing package.  I installed it while casting around
for something to read some purchased electronic books from amazon and Barnes an 
Nobel.
By and large it worked very well as a reader of all the formats it supports.

The ability to download news papers is one of the best implementations I have 
ever seen.

Conversion from one format to another is still a bit shaky, often failing for 
no obvious reason
with no diagnostics at all.

I hope future versions will be able to upload to some of the more popular
services (Amazon, B&N) which allow you to upload your books to your
private bookshelf on these services for download to their reader devices.

Note I used the Ubuntu version, as I did this before 11.2 came out.

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