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Old 01-03-2011, 08:17 AM   #1
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Tools of the Trade
Tools:
Calibre (with various free plug ins)
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Ebook Reader:
Sony PRS700 (ePub,PDF)
Sony Daily Editions (PRS 950)
iPad

Book Stores
Sony Reader Library (ePub, you do need a sony reader)
Barnes and Noble (ePub, via B&N DRM)
Borders (ePub)
Kobi (ePub)
Amazon (MOBI via Amazon, mostly)
Baen Books Sci Fi and Fantasy (various formats,paid and free books no DMR)
Fictionwise (lots of books with multi format and no DMR on those)
Couple of public library (various formats, new ones seem to be ePub)
Others...

What do you use?
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Old 01-03-2011, 09:26 AM   #2
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I find that Calibre is only needed if you have a lot of ebooks, which I don't as yet so I have put off using calibre for now.
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Old 01-03-2011, 01:40 PM   #3
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Oh believe me, the best time to START using Calibre is when you don't have many books because waiting until you have 200+ of them and then having to add them all in at once is an entire afternoon.

Tools
Kindle 2
Kindle 3
Sony Pocket
iPad x 2
iPhone
Plus there are the ones I'm lusting after like the Pocketbook and the Notion Ink Adam.

Vendors - Oh way many. I'm a price slut.

I'd add in some websites
Inkmesh (Price Comparison)
BooksOnTheKnob
MobileRead
and the places that supply some of those Calbire Tools
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Old 01-03-2011, 02:09 PM   #4
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Old 01-03-2011, 02:26 PM   #5
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Ye Trusty Olde VPN IP Proxy

Reader
Kindle 2
ePubReader add-on for Firefox
Lucidor

Vendors I'll Actually Buy From On A Semi-Regular Basis
Baen Webscriptions
BookViewCafé
Fictionwise

Sources for Free Books and Occasional Purchase
Amazon
B&N
Borders
direct from author (if offered on website in usable format and reasonable terms)
Feedbooks/Manybooks/MobileRead & other PG re-formatters
Google Books
Kobo
the library
Project Gutenberg & spinoffs
promotional giveaways
Sony
Smashwords (for rights-reverted backlist print books)

Sites for Info
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ThreePress Consulting Blog (creators of epubcheck)
certain sites that are to remain nameless due to MR considerations re: discussing
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Old 01-03-2011, 03:56 PM   #6
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Calibre - To manage library

Sites for Info
MobileRead - of course
GoodReads - to help manage wish-lists

Sites for Content
Inkmesh - favorite search engine for ebooks
asstr.org - Archive of old & current Usenet stories (adult)
Amazon
B&N
oreilly.com

Hardware
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Kindle 2 - Bought for my wife and mother but mother bought a Nook so I kept one
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MacbookPro - For my linux work
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Old 01-03-2011, 03:58 PM   #7
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Great list ! I'll have to check out BookViewCafé, never heard of them

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Tools (for Mac)
Python
Perl
Terminal
"Tools"
Smultron
TextWrangler
KindleGen
Kindle Previewer
Mobi2Mobi
Ye Trusty Olde VPN IP Proxy

Reader
Kindle 2
ePubReader add-on for Firefox
Lucidor

Vendors I'll Actually Buy From On A Semi-Regular Basis
Baen Webscriptions
BookViewCafé
Fictionwise

Sources for Free Books and Occasional Purchase
Amazon
B&N
Borders
direct from author (if offered on website in usable format and reasonable terms)
Feedbooks/Manybooks/MobileRead & other PG re-formatters
Google Books
Kobo
the library
Project Gutenberg & spinoffs
promotional giveaways
Sony
Smashwords (for rights-reverted backlist print books)

Sites for Info
EreaderIQ
Inkmesh
MobileRead
ThreePress Consulting Blog (creators of epubcheck)
certain sites that are to remain nameless due to MR considerations re: discussing
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Old 01-03-2011, 04:16 PM   #8
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I'll have to check out BookViewCafé, never heard of them
Do, especially if you like SF/fantasy (also a few mystery, historical, romance, but mainly sf/f).

BVC are a loosely-affiliated group of established midlist print authors who've gotten together to offer their rights-reverted backlist books on pretty much the same terms that Baen's Webscription does: DRM-free, MultiFormat, online reading, re-downloadable at any time, priced at $4.99 or less for individual titles, omnibus bundles available.

They've even got a "free library" of short stories and novellas that you can read to sample the authors' works, and even offer some of the novels as serialized web chapters (and encourage you to buy the e-reader version for portable reading). And they also re-sell through Smashwords and thence to Kobo, so you can use discount coupons on their books if they're participating in a particular sale (they did a few giveaway/% off certain titles during Read an E-book Week this March).

Currently, they're offering a time-limited promotional free download of Vonda M. McIntyre's Starfarers (published in the 80s by Ace, I think). Linking to the post in the Deals forum, because apparently there's a margin display issue with the ePub and people gave advice on how to fix it.

It's a great project and I hope more authors/publishers will get together to do something like this (or just plain join up to offer stuff at BVC or Baen's Webscriptions).
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Old 01-03-2011, 04:22 PM   #9
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Non-plugin scripts related to the above
Python Collections script <--can't live without it
Kindle4PC
Nook4PC
Adobe Digital Editions
Mobipocket Reader Pro (avail. for free these days, sometimes good for pdf conversions. Sometimes.)
Sigil
Mobipocket Creator
Kindle Previewer
ConvertLit GUI (Yes, they still exist. They're even still being sold.)
GIMP for fixing book covers


Hardware
Kindle 3 wifi+3g
Dell Inspiron 11z w/Vista
Compaq Presario v2000 w/XP
Do pen and paper count? They come in handy too.

Sites for Books
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Diesel (only when I have to)
Feedbooks
MobileRead
eHarlequin
Fictionwise
Baen
AllRomance
Girlebooks
Smashwords
ManyBooks
Internet Archive
Book View Cafe
Project Gutenberg
Direct - I've gotten several from authors' sites/blogs and even via email

Sites for Info
MobileRead, and sites I've found through MobileRead. Seriously, pretty much everything I've learned started right here. Sometimes I check out the Amazon Kindle board but it usually makes me want to run back here and cry.

Edited to add Project Gutenberg.
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Old 01-03-2011, 05:49 PM   #10
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Old 01-03-2011, 06:00 PM   #11
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Ebook Reader:
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Book Stores:
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Old 01-04-2011, 02:02 PM   #12
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Old 01-04-2011, 02:46 PM   #13
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Agreed. Some of my best finds have come from flea markets and junk shops. That includes both books and music (mostly 78s and LP vinyl).
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