Category: e-books
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How-to: Use Preview to put signatures on PDF’s, Pages Documents, and Mail messages – 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/15/how-to-use-preview-to-put-signatures-on-pdfs-pages-documents-and-mail-messages/ I discovered that lovely feature right now myself – and then I looked for a nice description – you may like it yourself.
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most American books published before 1964 are in the public domain today – and they are available as free e-books
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free
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error when viewing PDFs in emacs resp. after deleting associated buffers
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4029g0/error_when_viewing_pdfs/ the annoying, recurring error message: Error running timer `doc-view-display’: (error “Selecting deleted buffer”) what to do: M-x cancel-timer doc-view-display Update 2019-11-05 (GNU Emacs 26.3 on Mojave): M-x cancel-function-timers doc-view-display
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EPubSoft.com: How to convert Kindle EBooks (into DRM-free Kindle EBooks)
https://www.epubsoft.com/how-to-convert-kindle-ebooks.html CAVEAT: they tell you, which (version of) “Kindle for PC” resp. “Kindle for Mac” to use, actually they even provide you with exactly that version. and they tell you to not update your “Kindle for …” CAVEAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software) – software like calibre has to do the kindle2epub task – but calibre will only (?) start…
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working with an epub document as a reader – expectations …
Does your reader / viewer software support you annotating, and highlighting, and bookmarking (that is your “reading state”), and quoting from documents to your blog, to Facebook, to Twitter? Where does your viewer keep your reading state? Keeping it inside the epub file has advantages (easier to share), keeping it apart has advantages as well…
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EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
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O’Reilly Media book: EPUB 3 Best Practices
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024897.do The new EPUB 3 specification from the IDPF incorporates a wide range of technologies and functionality that are set to revolutionize electronic publishing. The format is poised to make the static two-dimensional page a thing of the past, introducing the world to new rich multimedia reading experiences and scripted interactivity. But a specification that…
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where does the “soft Kindle” store its files? (actually: ***kindle2epub*** in 2014)
$ cd $HOME && find . -iname ‘*kindle*content*’ $HOME/Documents/eBookConverter/Kindle DRM Removal/ $HOME/Calibre Library/ – calibre leave its conversion outputs here
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another “Kindle DRM removal” software by epubsoft
http://www.epubdrmentfernen.com
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“Kindle DRM Removal” – remove Kindle ebook DRM protection
http://www.ebook-converter.com/kindle-drm-removal.htm allows some free runs will cost me less than EUR 30 does an incredible job running calibre afterwards allows me to convert the document to “epub e-book” then I am able to “socially read” the book using iBooks on the Mac