Friday Report

[adair]

I am moving forward in my effort to make space so Mike can sleep on our couch when he visits. The stacks of books are much to big to sort and make adequate decisions to keep or not, so I bought some banker's boxes and am filling them to stack in the garage. I am screening a little as I pack the boxes, and pulling out a few that I plan to read right away, but most will be brought in after Mike leaves, a box or two at a time for major work.

Making book decisions is hard. A friend does much better than I, and has collected ebooks of most of those she wants to keep. I suspect a lot that I want to keep will not be in ebook format, but some undoubtedly are. I may investigate some books, and see if I can DeDRM them so I can use them on any reader. I am happy to pay for ebooks, but I really do not want to be restricted to one brand of reader. I prefer epub as a format, but B&N epubs are restricted to B&N software. Apple books are epub; I have not tested their restrictions so I can put them on Calibre and move them to any epub reader I have.

Comments

[tanaqui]

I hope being able to bring the books back a box or two at a time makes it easier to work through them!

If you use Calibre, you should check out Apprentice Alf's tools/plugins for DRM removal: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

[adair]

Thanks. I do use Calibre, but not much recently. I have looked at Apprentice Alf in the past - apparently B&N uses the credit card number used to buy the book. I have not fiddled with it yet; I do know my old numbers, so I should be able to work it out. i want to save DDrmed books to Calibre; I do not trust the Nook to stay around, and I have a lot of books. After I get the paper books in some order I will work on saving my epub books to calibre and a stand-alone drive. I like my Nook Glow for reading, but managing side-loading is more difficult than the early Nooks, which were wonderful - better designed than the Kindle of the time. I may try Kobo; a lot of people seem to use it.
I do a lot of reading on my iPad, but a stand-alone reader is nice to use, and the eInk screen is easier on the eyes, and readable outside. I need to make time to work on all this once again.