Is Calibre the take-down move I’ve been looking for?
I love my Kindle. I love it, but I want to love it more.
Right now I read the occasional book on my Kindle (although I’m finding myself buying more and more books for it) but primarily I read the New York Times. The one thing I don’t read on it is Web content, and that’s unfortunate, because one of the main ideas that sold me on the Kindle was being able to read long-form essays (etc.) found on the Web without having to stare at my computer screen and be tempted by links and the Google search box forever beckoning from the top-right corner of the browser.
I was hopeful that the new native PDF support (which allows me to drag and drop PDFs onto my device without having to email them to Amazon for conversion) would solve my conundrum. Alas, the font is too small! Even in landscape mode (also just introduced), it’s rough on the ol’ eyeballs.
There must be a way to quickly grab some text from a website and save it in a format that I can drop onto my Kindle and read comfortably. I’m basically looking for the equivalent of hitting “Print.” I used to frequently print to a PDF file using CutePDF for later reading, but I haven’t been able to make Cute PDF give me a file that doesn’t give my Kindle the hiccups.
And then I found Calibre. I think it will solve all my Kindle-related frustrations. A more in depth review to follow.
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