Cory Doctorow posted on Twitter about Lauren Beukes’ new book (The Shining Girls) and I went to buy immediately since I really enjoyed Zoo City. Amazon only sells a Kindle version naturally, so I wanted to find an .epub version. A South African site (Kalahari.com) sells it, but won’t sell it to me because I’mContinue reading “Piracy encouraged”
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Reading ebooks just got much better
The first image shows one breakthrough in ebook reading: calibre. This tool will convert between the many incompatible ebook formats and most importantly output in .epub, the open, XML-based ebook format to hopefully rule them all. First step out of the way, converting the hundreds of .pdb and .prc format ebooks I have on myContinue reading “Reading ebooks just got much better”