[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux

... and you may have difficulty finding it as I misspelled it.

Calibre, not Caliber

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Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 07:52 -0800, Bob AK wrote:
> 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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