I need to read a contemporary book, search it, bookmark it, and write notes in it. Searching is the one thing that really requires an ebook. It will almost certainly be available only in a DRM format, but I may have a choice. I'd prefer a native reader, though if only Web based ones are available, that would work. Any experience? TIA, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 16/02/2017 à 15:56, Jeffrey L. Taylor a écrit :
I need to read a contemporary book, search it, bookmark it, and write notes in it. Searching is the one thing that really requires an ebook. It will almost certainly be available only in a DRM format, but I may have a choice. I'd prefer a native reader, though if only Web based ones are available, that would work. Any experience?
TIA, Jeffrey
convert with "calibre", available in yast jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 2017-02-16 a las 08:56 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor escribió:
I need to read a contemporary book, search it, bookmark it, and write notes in it. Searching is the one thing that really requires an ebook. It will almost certainly be available only in a DRM format, but I may have a choice. I'd prefer a native reader, though if only Web based ones are available, that would work. Any experience?
I would buy a standalone epub reader that is DRM capable; they are not that expensive nowdays. At least on the one I have I can do all you say, on the device (I have a kobo). These things are black and white (or greys), the battery can last months of use (depending on model, a touch screen makes that a few weeks or less). They are very confortable on the eyes, have no backlight (some models do), and can be used on the sun. The only real snag is "no colour". Yes, they tend to be slow, for speed you need a tablet instead. Then you can remove the DRM protection; this may be illegal in your country, though. You probably need to do this in Windows, because to download DRM protected epubs you proabably need Adobe Digital Editions (ADE). Then you can import with a Calibre plugin that removes the DRM (using DeDRM plugin), but in Windows, too. I don't know how to do this in Linux, it is more complex. Notice that the DRM protection is personal, it identifies the books to you. You remove the DRM in order to do a backup copy or use another software; the book is yours and you will safeguard the book so that nobody else gets that non DRM copy. Giving copies to others would be illegal. At least that's the situation in my country to my knowledge, your's I have no idea. Once the protection is removed, you can copy the resulting epub in Linux and view it with calibre or another reader, or posibly convert to another format that allows you editing. Be very careful, because at this step you are working with a copyrighted work. Make sure that what you write is differentiated and that the original work is not modified. IANAL etc. HTH. -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))
On 02/16/2017 09:40 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I would buy a standalone epub reader that is DRM capable; they are not that expensive nowdays. At least on the one I have I can do all you say, on the device (I have a kobo).
I've had two of those from various manufacturers. Great for casual pool side reading. *Horrible for taking notes.* Utterly Horrible. And finding your notes again is equally horrible. Even if you do get note taking features in your e-reader, unless you find one that syncs with some computer, you will never have your notes with you when you want it, nor will you have them in a form you can use. In Calibre you can make bookmarks in your ebooks. And these are searchable within the book. They are also searchable within KDE if your ebooks are sitting where baloo can find them. And if you have your Calibre Library Synced on Dropbox (or similar) you will have your bookmarks where ever you go, even on your pool-side tablet running some version of linux or windows. But bookmarks aren't notes or annotations. There is a github half finished project for an annotations manager for Calibre's reader. Haven't tried it yet. https://github.com/whacked/calibre-viewer-annotation -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2017-02-16 a las 12:36 -0800, John Andersen escribió:
On 02/16/2017 09:40 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I would buy a standalone epub reader that is DRM capable; they are not that expensive nowdays. At least on the one I have I can do all you say, on the device (I have a kobo).
I've had two of those from various manufacturers. Great for casual pool side reading.
*Horrible for taking notes.* Utterly Horrible. And finding your notes again is equally horrible.
Even if you do get note taking features in your e-reader, unless you find one that syncs with some computer, you will never have your notes with you when you want it, nor will you have them in a form you can use.
On the kobo, I found a script that would extract the notes. It is a database, the file is accessible, and can be copied and queried in openSUSE.
In Calibre you can make bookmarks in your ebooks. And these are searchable within the book. They are also searchable within KDE if your ebooks are sitting where baloo can find them.
Calibre out of the box will not read DRM protected books. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlimFZIACgkQja8UbcUWM1xgZgD+Jque70ud/qJ5hO4L3k401TUY XaVEMrHUn9Xn6D61dAEA+wfFccuhzTr5kjeCigquk3KfuBNWjiufpsBJvzaIz9wg =JjaL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2017-02-16 a las 14:09 -0800, John Andersen escribió:
On 02/16/2017 01:11 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Calibre out of the box will not read DRM protected books.
But as you mentioned in another post google will easily find the plugins for that. They work both on linux and windows.
No, it is much harder to do it in Linux. I was unable to do it. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlimKPoACgkQja8UbcUWM1yzjAD/fKpmeebkx94z15g6fa88ayfH L2AHiUXuWhmBd7ktc6gA+wVU9Y7lxbfWm8Tis9JQgCWsppVWro2Iy4GlMgE5/sAZ =q5od -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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