• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Calibre is a fantastic Ebook organizer and it can handle all sorts of file conversions and removing DRM from books. Whichever book reader you get I would recommend it.

    It’s like the iTunes for your iPod but it’s FOSS.

    Here are 5,000 books available for free forever as part of Project Gutenburg. https://www.gutenberg.org/. That’s download, and click Sync within Calibre. It handles all file conversions (if necessary).


    Separately given the price differential. Whichever you get - get one with a backlight/front light. Ebook readers are as difficult, if not more, to read as books are without bright light.

    The ebook lights point into the screen instead of at your face - it’s much different than a phone and much easier on the eyes.

    I don’t know how much time I have spent reading in bed with-backlight-on not bothering my wife but it’s a lot. It’s where I do the majority of my reading. Not possible with a real book - she’s a light sleeper and any light bright enough to read would keep her up.