[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux

I'd like to second Bob's opinion. It's great to hear the goings on of =20
Friday Night linux.

I'm going to take a look at Caliber.

It seemed from what you were saying that the Caliber software allows a =20
kindle to download books from the machine and will do the conversions =20
for you?

That sounds very interesting.

Thanks for the info.

Mike B.

Quoting Bob AK <radio72@gmail.com>:

> 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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