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2671417 No.2671417 [Reply] [Original]

>get kindle for christmas
>excited cause I may never have to buy a boo agian
>put a couple books in and read them
>really enjoyed them
>then start finding all my favourite books and books I want to read and put them in my kindle
>try and read one and the paragraphs is all fucked up
>calibre(the program I use) named the books wrong
Fuck E-books /lit/. I have went back to buying books.

>> No.2671429
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2671429

Technology man.
Its not ready.

>> No.2671441

Dumbass, I bet it was a pdf, wasn't it? Those do not convert smoothly to mobi. Find a torrent that is strictly mobi or epub and you won't have that problem again. If the title is messed up, fix it yourself.

>> No.2671442

>>2671417
Never convert pdf's to .mobi. Epub, txt, rtf, doc are acceptable, html - sometimes as well.

>> No.2671453

No, they were all .MOBI files
I downloaded them all from a torrent.

>> No.2671466

>>2671453

Well, I don't know what to say then. How fucked up were the paragraphs? Were they just single sentences? Did the other books have similar problems, or is this an isolated case?

>> No.2671467

>Fuck E-books /lit/. I have went back to buying books.

You should have went back to school.

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>>2671467

>> No.2671480

>>2671466
The paragraphs would cut off mid sentence and start again on another paragraph.
Don't know about you guys, but I can't read when it's like that.

>>2671467
Look what we got here, a smartass.

>> No.2671508

>>2671480
If u went back to inferior paper books becus u cudn't figure out how to use kindle+calibre properly, then yeah, he is not that far off.

>> No.2671531

>>2671417
>buy a kindle
>get almost all books I want
>occasionally a book isn't converted perfectly, but it's rare and it's fixable.
>from time to time I still go to an actual library or buy a regular book

Feelsgoodman. I'm so happy I don't have to fill my suitcase with books anymore whenever I travel.