https://www.danfixes.blog/ 2026-05-06T13:20:06+00:00 https://www.danfixes.blog/ https://www.danfixes.blog/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-05-07T17:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:bonus?rev=1746637200&do=diff Cool bonus stuff Extra awesome things that Calibre can do: Multiple libraries for multiple purposes Calibre can manage multiple libraries, and you can swap between them whenever - for example, I've got a library for my kid, another for my spouse, another one for me, another one for my comics, that kinda thing. Click the Libraries icon in the top big-icon area (looks like four books together on a shelf) and use Switch/Create Library to make a new library (make sure to check the text/html 2025-05-15T19:04:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:decrapifyandsend?rev=1747335854&do=diff . Decrapify and Send It's finally time to plug the ereader into the computer! When you first plug in the ereader, Windows will make a bunch of noises. It might complain that there's a problem with the drive you just plugged in - ignore it, it's lying, the drive is fine, do not accept its offer of help. Wait for Windows to calm down. Once it's stopped pinging at you, Calibre should have added another couple of buttons to its top toolbar; next to text/html 2025-05-16T14:42:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:firsttimesetup?rev=1747406576&do=diff Setting up Calibre for the easy ebook life Calibre is free ebook management software that can convert any ebook format to any other ebook format. It was made not by a corporation but by a community of voracious readers and librarian-sorts, and it doesn't care at all what Amazon or Barnes & Noble would prefer you do with the ebooks you bought and paid for. It eats bullshit for breakfast. Let's get it set up. text/html 2025-05-16T14:40:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:gibberingmanifesto?rev=1747406449&do=diff Reading new ebooks on old ereaders: a gibbering manifesto Well that's a hell of a subtitle, innit? I've sat down to write this guide like three times now, and it keeps happening. I started writing this 'cause I was gonna give my neighbour an ebook reader and he'd want to know how to get books on it, but then I figured it'd be useful to anyone with an old ereader and new books and it became this whole Thing. text/html 2025-07-17T23:38:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:manga?rev=1752795488&do=diff Comics and manga on the Sony PRS-505 Manga is awesome on the PRS-505. Western comics work too, but not as well because their pages are bigger, so you might have to squint a bit. Manga tends to come in three formats: * .cbz - this is a bunch of individual pictures given numerically-ascending filenames like page001.jpg, page0002.jpg and so on, all zipped up together in a .zip file, and then someone's right-clicked on it and changed .zip to .cbz. That's it. If you change the file extension … text/html 2025-07-23T22:39:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.danfixes.blog/oldtech:calibre:start?rev=1753310366&do=diff Putting new ebook files on old ereaders This is mostly about the Sony PRS-505 specifically. This is a five-part series because every time I try to write it, it turns into a foam-mouthed screed about the failures of the publishing industry and the evils of corporate greed. For your convenience, I've moved all the