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HopeHoops

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9. There isn't a free reader for Linux. Damn near everything else, just not that.

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 07:48 PM

Dec 2011

My mini is a SSD Linux box (HP shipped it that way) and I love the machine - on almost as soon as you open the lid, light weight, great for keeping by the bed. No eReader yet.

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Oy the joys of new technology [View all] nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 OP

Give it time. I started with HTML 1.0 and it was dirt simple. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #1

Scivener does the best compilation to both EPUB and Mobi nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #2

It's a tough thing to do. Not from a technical perspective but from a device aspect. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #3

That it is... now edit the file a couple more times nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #4

Well that's part of the problem. How many people have one of everything? HopeHoops Dec 2011 #5

Well at least Kindle got ahead of the curve nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #6

But not Linux. Whaaaa! HopeHoops Dec 2011 #7

I am sure it can, if they have kindle for it nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #8

There isn't a free reader for Linux. Damn near everything else, just not that. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #9

Yes there is nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #10

fbreader is plain vanilla and ugly. hunter Jan 2012 #11