Thursday, June 13, 2013

Free Ebook *Talk*, Not Listings

OK, i did it—switched the URL to FreeEbookTalk.blogspot.com (from FreeEbookListings.blogspot.com) and changed the title & description, etc.

"Listings" sounds less legitimate than "Talk" to my ears.  :-D

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yesterday i faced a probably-common problem—i had some ebook files (.MOBI in this case) of books i wanted to read, and i put them on my Kindle; but when i went to pull them up, it denied me access.  damned!  (and they had worked fine on my computer's Kindle reader!)

the solution?  i used Calibre and converted the troublesome .MOBI files into .AZW3 files, and then loaded those files onto the Kindle.  did they work on my Kindle then?  they sure did!  SUCCESS!!!

why did it work?  my Kindle is an older one, and the .AZW3 file format is a newer one; so i figured my old Kindle might be less able to recognize a (perhaps subtle) problem with a new format.

who knows if that's really why it worked; but it doesn't really matter, as long as it *did* work!


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