In praise of dead trees

[sabotabby]

You know what's great?

Books that are printed on paper.

You know why?

Because I can open up a 100-year-old paper book and it will still work the way it's supposed to. Unlike, say, my three-year-old Sony Reader, which now does not work because it's incompatible with Adobe Digital Editions and the Sony Reader software is incompatible with the new Mac OS, and Calibre, which is open source, can't manage library e-books. The device can't download from the library directly because it's full of garbage that Sony put on there and slow as shit to boot.

So now I can only read e-books that I steal or buy. Which is not something I'm in the habit of doing.

Thanks, capitalism!

Comments

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

Do you need to use Calibre to place .epub files in your reader? I have a Kindle, so it may be different for me, but I usually never use Calibre's "transfer to device" feature -- I manually go to the Kindle's directory (like it's a USB stick) and place them in the right folder.

Is there a digital reader (like an open source one of some kind) that might work on any of your devices and let you transfer over? I find it really weird that there isn't some way to work around this issue, it can't be that highly specific since you're not using some obscure brand's ereader...

EDIT: Ah, nvm, I see you've found a way to work it out.

[sabotabby]

Yeah, I tried directly transferring them and same problem.

But I worked it out, so it's all good. Yay plugins.