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Just got a Kindle.

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RoboTimbo said:
Click on the down arrow beside "Fetch News" at the top of the screen. Click on your preferred language and a list of available news sources will open. Slide down to the one you want and click on it once. On the right side of the screen will be a dialog of how often you want it to download. At the bottom right, click on Save. That's it for having it download to Calibre on your computer. If you also want Calibre to email it to your Kindle:

You should have set up your approved email accounts on your Amazon Kindle Account page (see Sending Your Documents for Conversion in the Kindle User's Guide).

You will also need to set up your Free.Kindle.Com email account in Preferences since Calibre can send it that way. In Preferences, Sharing Books by Email, click on Add Email. You'll need to enter the information for your mail service at the bottom of the screen such as the mail server, your login name, and password for your mail service. Mostly the same stuff you enter when setting up an email client like Outlook.

Click the checkbox to have it auto deliver and it will be emailed daily to your Kindle from Calibre as long as you leave Calibre running. If you don't need that, it will still be in your Calibre library and you can plug in the Kindle to the computer and transfer it that way.

Link to a discussion on Amazon's Kindle forum: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/fo...PQSU86P&cdMsgID=Mx600KS3SQOK3P#Mx600KS3SQOK3P
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I was just rereading this thread now that I've had my kindle for a few weeks and just came across this. I just experimented, and sure enough, I have downloaded the Washington Post and a few other things for free. Why would I pay for a subscription to these things when I can download them for free? Is Calibre offering a legal version of these magazines and newpapers, or is this stealing? I don't want to steal.
 
roger said:
I was just rereading this thread now that I've had my kindle for a few weeks and just came across this. I just experimented, and sure enough, I have downloaded the Washington Post and a few other things for free. Why would I pay for a subscription to these things when I can download them for free? Is Calibre offering a legal version of these magazines and newpapers, or is this stealing? I don't want to steal.
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It's downloading from the same source you could download it for free yourself without Calibre. It's the free online versions of things that are being downloaded.

Calibre's publisher has made it clear here and on the subject of DRM that they won't circumvent the law.
 
BenBurch said:
Just put several of the PDF references I use onto it, and this feature works just fine, but the text can be a bit small.
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I have hundreds of books in PDF format, and read them on my laptop. When the text is small, <cntl>+ makes it bigger, just like it does in my browser. Is this not an option with the Kindle?
 
bokonon said:
I have hundreds of books in PDF format, and read them on my laptop. When the text is small, <cntl>+ makes it bigger, just like it does in my browser. Is this not an option with the Kindle?
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As far as I have figured out, you can;

1. Change the orientation and so go to a wider width, with the expense of seeing the whole page.

2. Magnify the page with the expense that you have to then pan to see more than the magnified window.

If there is a way to increase text size and have it re-flow the page, I've not found it.

However, Caliber will convert the pdf to a mobi file and then you can set text size as you wish.
 
The main buzz on that seems to be proper page numbers. Not available on all books, and I'm not sure how accurate they are, but it was an issue that a lot of people seemed to care about.
 
BenBurch said:
Another thing with the new software; Magazine format has changed. This shows up in Caliber site digests as well.
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So it has - the content page is neater still too much extraneous info when reading an article or story in the magazine.
 
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