This for those of you who’ve never done this…help and comments via questions are welcome.<\/p>\n
On the left sidebar, find downloads called E-readers. The programs in question are: Calibre and Mobipocket Reader. Calibre is shareware (ie, would like a little donation), and will both read AND convert files, quite powerfully; Mobipocket is freeware, and just reads.<\/p>\n
Install them. The files are safe: I’ve run them through screening on my own computer.<\/p>\n
Download the omnifile for the book from my post: clicking on it should unzip if you have XP; otherwise you will have to unzip it by your own means. SAVE this file to some storage immune from computer crashes. This is your backup in case you change ‘devices\/readers’ or have a computer crash. (Actually I will produce a second edition of it before CC opens, trying to mop up those glitches.)<\/p>\n
Now open the omnifile that’s on your computer, the download you got from me. Inside the omnifile folder you will find a number of folderswith odd names: these are the types or .extensions of various sorts: you only need the one that fits your device: mobi and epub or\u00a0pdf,\u00a0in this case: you have a choice.<\/p>\n
To use either of the two softwares you have installed—just\u00a0click, for starters, on the omnifile’s\u00a0MOBI folder,\u00a0 dig down and get to the actual mobi file, the one with numbers. Click on that.\u00a0Mobireader will\u00a0open and show you the book as \u00a0a screen emulating a reader, with the file as a book you can page through.<\/p>\n
Get to the e-Pub file. Click on that. Calibre will boot and display a ‘loading’ indicator. When it is finished, it will show the book as a line in its table of books it has. Highlight that with a click—then click View on the toolbar above; this brings up the Reader, which has two forms—wide, in which case the formatting will not work as well; and Reader-styled, in which case it shows as a book-sized display. The wide\/book mode switch is on the left sidebar. Experiment with it. It won’t change the file.<\/p>\n
If you want to read it in PDF in your word processor, just treat it as any other file. Open the PDF folder and load the .pdf into your processor.<\/p>\n
I suspect with many devices there will be a USB transfer, ie, just use a USB cable to connect your device to your computer and send the file over to the device as if it were any other kind of \u00a0‘drive’, but if anybody has any tricky kind of connection and knows how, do post that in a comment, for the newcomers to this sort of device.<\/p>\n
I found out what’s going on with the e-mail addys: it’s turning up in a ‘customers’ screen inside the software of my WP Store, on my computer, but nowhere else. You know my policy: I hate spammers and I don’t spam. I will count the number of downloads, but I will not retain those addys\u00a0to send you anything nor would I ever, ever, ever\u00a0sell a list to spammers. I will erase\u00a0the addresses\u00a0once I\u00a0have counted the downloads:\u00a0we need to keep accurate ‘books’ in the accounting sense, and I need to work that methodology out, but quite simply, that list will never surface to annoy you, because nobody is going to see it and\u00a0I will erase it periodically. I can see one use for the list: if there should be a bad glitch in a file’s published form(eg, the PDB file turns out bad)—I could e-mail everybody who bought\u00a0the omnifile\u00a0a ‘new’, ‘fixed’ omnifile ASAP without your having to do anything, and I think that would be a good reason to retain those addies until the omnifile has been out and used for a bit. I have a lot of personal pride wrapped up in this operation, and I want people to be happy with what they paid money for.<\/p>\n
Note: the .txt format does not display italics, and probably does not display graphics. It’s a lot like the Notepad format of your computer, very basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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