[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux

We only had the Kindle to play with, but the documentation says it does
others as well.

It also appears to have a fairly complete command line interface. I
wonder how difficult it would be to set it up on a server? I'm thinking
home or small office intranets, not putting it out on the web. It seems
like there should find some uses there.

-- 
Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:12 -0800, barsalou wrote:
> 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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