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--- oldtech:calibre:firsttimesetup [2025/05/07 16:47] – created ifixcoinops
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 ====== Setting up Calibre for the easy ebook life ======
-Calibre is free ebook management software that can convert any ebook format to any other ebook format.  It was made not by a corporation but by a community of voracious readers and librarian-sorts, and it doesn't care at all what Amazon or Barnes & Noble would prefer.  It eats bullshit for breakfast.  Let's get it set up.
+Calibre is free ebook management software that can convert any ebook format to any other ebook format.  It was made not by a corporation but by a community of voracious readers and librarian-sorts, and it doesn't care at all what Amazon or Barnes & Noble would prefer you do with the ebooks you bought and paid for.  It eats bullshit for breakfast.  Let's get it set up.
-Important note: these instructions are for people who have a Sony PRS-505 ereader, because [[oldtech:prs505|I bought a stack of eleven of them off eBay and have been distributing them to my friends]], but the information in here is broadly applicable to most ereaders.
+Important note: these instructions are for people who have a Sony PRS-505 ereader, because [[oldtech:prs505|I bought a big stack of them off eBay and have been distributing them to my friends]], but the information in here is broadly applicable to most ereaders.
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 === On Linux ===
-You don't have to do anything except decide whether to be smug about it.
+You don't have to do anything, but try not to be smug about it, Mister Smuggy Smugsson