Archive for 'ebooks'

Innovative Canadian and American book hackers

Image by kayray via Flickr Canada has become a bit of a backwater when it comes to access to culture. We’re left out of Pandora, Hulu, and the Kindle. Canadian TV streaming is paltry when it comes to selection, a Pandora equivalent is nonexistant, and I didn’t think we had a Kindle alternative until today. [...]

Eager to get my eSlick

I’m gearing up for my FoxIt eSlick.  My eSlick won’t arrive for quite some time but I’m still gathering information on converting ebooks to PDF. So far my biggest sources of ebooks are text files from Project Gutenberg, CHM files from O’Reilly books (apparently PDFCHM.com keeps a database of books that come with free PDFs [...]

Using inept to strip DRM for better viewing

Image via Wikipedia (Update: This post wasn’t intended as a how-to but people are getting some use out of it. To fill in the gaps, here is an article on how to install the required tools like pycrypto.) I remove DRM whenever possible because I lost a few iTunes tracks. Also, since the FoxIt eSlick [...]

So, I just bought the FoxIt eSlick reader

Image by PiPiWa via Flickr It was through giving the Ohpan beta a try that I discovered the FoxIt eSlick. I rated up a number of tech stories and through that jkOnTheRun‘s post about the eSlick potentially working with eReader caught my eye. I didn’t know FoxIt was working on hardware. I’ve always loved ebooks [...]