That's to bad.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cheryl Homiak
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 6:42 AM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: for those that do kindle book conversions
I can't use codecs because it is not available on the Mac.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Feb 15, 2017, at 8:12 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm surprised you don't use codex. It's based on calibre. Codex is much
easier to use than Calibare.
-----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Homiak
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:04 AM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: for those that do kindle book conversions
Hmm, I haven't gotten any of these new formatted books yet but we shall see
the next time I get a book. I imagine if they are changing all their books
it might take a while so at first it may just be new books.
If they are going to do that, then it's time they allowed Mac users to read
with their Kindle app somehow too. I'm really ticked though! I use the
command line of calibre to convert (calibre is just on the edge of being
accessible without command line but not quite in my opinion but that will
probably not matter with this new format). Of course I can still read Kindle
books; just can't convert them. But I don't like the idea of my book someday
just disappearing or becoming unreadable; that's a lot of why I convert. Not
happy to hear this news at all. And I've heard very mixed reviews of Kindle
for PC too. Maybe I should go back to scanning more print books. In my
opinion when you buy a book you should be able to buy the book, not just
permission to read it in some weird format.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Feb 14, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh boy, This is bad news! This means I'll no longer be able to use voice
dream reader to read my converted books. I'll be stuck with using the
Kindle app on my ipad.
-----Original Message----- From: William Brandes
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 10:48 PM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] for those that do kindle book conversions
hi all. an interesting read for those that use kindle for pc and/or
conversions using codex. i did a copy and paste. below.
Kindle for PC
Kindle for PC allows you to manage your e-book collection and read any
of the titles you have purchased on your home computer or tablet.
Amazon has just issued a monumental update that includes typesetting
enhancements, search improvements, and a text-to-speech feature which
allows the app to read some e-Books aloud to you.
All of these new updates were made possible because Amazon no longer
delivers e-books into your account with the AZW format, instead they
are now sent in KFX.
There is lots of conjecture about the KFX e-book format, simply
because it came out in 2016. One of the biggest factors is that it is
digitally encrypted and nobody has managed to crack the DRM system,
which prevents piracy. The KFX format is also “pre-rendered” to some
extent, such as having hyphenation pre calculated and added to the
text as either soft-hyphens or html tags. This is similar to what Kobo
does with kepub. This allows Amazon to push out their new Ember and
Bookerly formats and to make e-books like way better than with
Caecilia.
stay well ... william
