Saturday, July 3, 2010

Managing e-books

I've recently bought Kindle from Amazon and i'm very satisfied (despite the lack of Italian e-books).

It uses a proprietary format (AZW) which is a customization of the open standard MOBI (supported). It supports PDFs too but they suck enough and it doesn't support the e-pub format, then a convertion tool is required!

To convert all of my PDFs like Better builds with Maven i've found a great tool called calibre.

It can organize the virtual library, convert documents (keeping track of formats) and share (natively) with Kindle using both the wireless global network and the USB way.

A great tool.

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