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Yesterday I wanted to share a sentence of text from an ebook with two friends on Google Hangouts. I clicked the 'share' button in Nook Reader and chose 'Hangout
by rikkus 11y ago
Yesterday I wanted to share a sentence of text from an ebook with two friends on Google Hangouts. I clicked the 'share' button in Nook Reader and chose 'Hangouts' as the destination. It pasted a URL pointing to a barnes and noble site with some ID appended. This is not what I want to happen.
I ended up screenshotting the page, cropping it, and pasting the image onto chat. It might have been easier to type the whole thing out (though I'm not great at typing on mobile).
This annoyance alone has spurred me to look again at keeping my own catalog of DRM-free files in Calibre and using a reader that doesn't do this sort of thing.
Any advice on 'flow' to make this sort of approach easy is welcome (apart from the DRM bit, that's off-topic).
- Slippery_John 11y agoPut your calibre library in Dropbox or Google Drive. Get Calibre Cloud Pro to have a good-looking, easily searchable library on your device (you download from there as needed). Use Moon+ or some other reader to read the books. Calibre also has a server function (which Moon+ supports), but not everybody has a public IP to access their books everywhere. These are all Android, but there's probably some equivalent on iOS. You will want to convert all your ebooks to a format that your reader supports, such as epub. There are extensions for Calibre that will strip DRM if you're into that.