Kindle devices appeal to many people. When everything works, they're great. But Amazon is becoming more and more finicky, both in terms of supported formats and the freedom to manage your own books.

Amazon’s Kindle line of devices are some of the most popular E Ink gadgets for reading eBooks, and for good reason. They’re relatively inexpensive, have good displays, offer long battery life, and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Some people prefer ebooks over physical copies for the ease of collecting and commuting with them. There are a bunch of different formats in ...

Amazon had earlier announced support for ePub on its Kindle e-reader devices. This had come as a huge surprise considering that the company had staunchly been opposing what otherwise happens to be the ...

The Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook eReaders use competing proprietary file formats to encode eBooks designed for the readers. The Nook uses the relatively common ePub format, while the Kindle ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...

Calibre, a free and open-source e-book conversion tool, enables you to convert e-books from one format to another or convert digital documents, such as Microsoft Word files, into e-books. You can then ...

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