[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux

From: Bob AK <radio72@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 23 2010 - 07:52:47 AKDT

Thanks Jim
.
Not getting to Friday often and like to hear what's going on.
I still read those old physical books.
Also find pdfs, ebooks very handy. Haven't tried Caliber yet.

   Bob Pelz

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 6 showed up. Nobody had anything earthing shaking to accomplish, so we
> played with Damien's new Kindle toy.
>
> Figured out that it actually plays fairly nicely w/ Linux. Err, Linux
> will play nicely w/ the Kindle is probably a more accurate way to phrase
> that.
>
> I have been using Caliber as an Ebook reader on my laptop. It has a
> tendency to crash, but mostly when shutting down. It's crashes don't
> seem to be particularly critical or hurt anything. It usually doesn't
> even stop it from working. I usually only know it crashed because ABRT
> tells me.
>
> At any rate, we figured out it has a built in web-server that the
> Kindle, and I suspect other like devices, can talk to and download books
> from. It will also convert between several Ebook formats. In this case
> we used it to convert the 'Linux from Scratch' book from PDF to .mobi.
> The Kindle was able to 'read' the book just fine.
>
> We did end up having to surf to <MyIpAddress>:8080. I think something in
> my laptop's security settings was precluding us from using a
> straightforward port 80. Will have to figure that out another day.
>
> It shows a 'Caliber Themed' webpage on the Ebook reader and gives you a
> selection list to choose a book from. I'm think Caliber could make a
> useful addition to a Home or Small Office server. There are still some
> of us who read a book occasionally, aren't there?
> --
> Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
>
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