Chapters 6, 7, and 8 - Calibre - Read Blogs, Periodicals, and Other Web Content for Free on the Kindle - Fetch the News, Newspapers and Magazines

Kindle 2 Links and Shortcuts: Chapters 6, 7, and 8 - Calibre - Read Blogs, Periodicals, and Other Web Content for Free on the Kindle - Fetch the News, Newspapers and Magazines

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Chapters 6, 7, and 8 - Calibre - Read Blogs, Periodicals, and Other Web Content for Free on the Kindle -

• You can download the Calibre software in formats that are compatible, respectively, with Windows, OS X for the Mac, or Linux at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download.
• I recommend that, even before you download Calibre, you begin by watching Kovid's YouTube presentation on Calibre at http://bit.ly/CalibreVideo.
  
• In the future, you may also want to check out YouTube's eReader channel at http://bit.ly/eReaders-on-YouTube to check for more recent presentations.
• For that purpose, I recommend some of the user-friendly documentation that Kovid has provided right on the Calibre website, including a thorough and easy-to-follow Calibre User Manual, online; and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section.
  
• I'll provide an index here to the list of hundreds of Kindle-ready web links that appears later in this book:

LINK DIRECTORY: Amazon Store Bestseller Links - Blogs - Blog Lists

LINK DIRECTORY: Kindle Store, App, and Kindle Essential Links - Freebies for Your Kindle - eBook Discussions - Kindle Blogs - Kindle Gear

LINK DIRECTORY: News - Newspapers, National, Technology, and Sports

LINK DIRECTORY: Reference - Magazines - Mail & Message - Mobile RSS Readers - Mobile Transcoders - Mobile Site Lists

LINK DIRECTORY: Shipping Carriers - Shopping - Travel - Weather - Glossary

• For a delightfully simple, elegant, and useful 3-minute video about Google Reader in plain English, see the CommonCraft video at http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english.
• Open the main Google Reader page. The shortest URL that I have found for this is reader.google.com.
  
• Just go to Instapaper.com, sign up for a free account, and link your account to your Kindle via your You@kindle.com email address.
  
• I recommend some of the user-friendly documentation that Kovid has provided right on the Calibre website, including a thorough and easy-to-follow Calibre User Manual, online; and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section.