#ereader apps

Daily Links: Deal on Kindle Fire HD and more

Today, Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a refurbished Kindle Fire 8.9 for only $139.00. This is the previous generation model with the micro HDMI port. I use mine a lot for streaming video because of that port.

The eBook Reader has a great post on turning your Android tablet into an ereader, with a comprehensive list of reading apps for Android.

I’ve been MIA because of a couple of home projects, but…

After recently watching the 2013 movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" this past week, and having read the first four (4) books in the series' so far, I went to load up and reread, "City of Ashes" today, which is Book 2 of "The Mortal Instruments" series by Cassandra Clare, and found that my Sony Reader Ereader app for my laptop and phone did indeed disappear when The Sony Reader Store merged with Kobo in March. I have the Kobo Ereader app on my laptop and phone, too, of course, and I love it. As an added bonus, Kobo takes Paypal as one of there many payment options. -grins- So since The Sony Reader website and store are gone, and are merged with Kobo, the Sony Reader app that I have used to import my downloaded .epub files for free was gone too - in fact, that is all I ever used Sony Reader for. I pay for all my Kobo ebooks happily, but never need to with Sony, since it did indeed have the "import files and folders" option. I tried using the Nook app, but quickly found that for some reason it would not import all my book files, so I got rid of it, and found http://calibre-ebook.com/ almost immediately. And, upon downloading it and checking it out, I immediately fell in love with it. To turn the pages http://calibre-ebook.com/ Ereader program, you use the purple and white arrows on the left, seem in the "Contents Page" screencap. Apparently this Calibre Reader reads and/or converts all kinds of ebook formats and things. To use it on computers and laptops, when you download/install it, you chose "Generic Device". iPad, iPods and Smartphones are listed separately. So now, for all my daily reading wants and needs, I have my Kobo Ereader app. my Kindle Ereader app, and now my Calibre Ereader to replace the obsolete and gone old Sony Reader app.