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Humor Busch, Wilhelm: Bilderpossen [German] V1 27.03.2016

Bilderpossen ist ein Buch des humoristischen Malers und Zeichners Wilhelm Busch. Es erschien 1864 und enthielt vier größere Geschichten: Der Eispeter, Katze und Maus, Krischan mit der Piepe und Hänsel...

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I want to see my read book at one glance

I want to see my read book at one glance next update?:rofl:

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Australian Kindle Distributor Fails

Some years ago Amazon appointed a local retail chain, Dick Smith Electronics, to distribute Kindles in Australia. There was a small display of some Kindle Models in each of its many stores, but I never...

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MobileRead April 2016 Book Club Vote

April 2016 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the April 2016 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results...

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Compiling 0.9.5 with Qt 5.6.0

Hello, all! I just discovered the site this week joined today. I am running Linux Mint 17.3. I grabbed the source to the latest Sigil version and am trying to figure out how to build it. The trouble...

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Happy Easter everyone!

Happy Eater 2016 to all my friends at MobileRead!

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Any Latinists out there?

I'm preparing an ebook edition of Erasmus Against War for the MobileRead library, and trying to provide translations for the Latin and French. There is a quote in the introduction which I can't make...

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So...you think you want to be a commercial Bookmaker? Read on...

Dearest friends, peeps and commiserators: This thread probably should have been entitled "you can't make this s**t up," but hey...I try to be thoughtful about offending people only when it's...

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Tags out of order

I won't be insulted if anyone tells me to get over it and deal, I promise, because I do realize I'm being (EXTREMELY!) nitpicky here, but since it has bugged me for a while, I figured I'd go ahead and...

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Short Story Anthologies

I'm way more partial to short stories than novels (sometimes the shorter the better! :D ) as some of you may know. I'm always on the lookout for new short story anthologies and collections (anthologies...

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How to format a SD-card for I86HDML Plus?

Hello, I have a 32GB (SDHC Class 10) in my Onyx Boox what contents nearly 8000 PDF Books. The SD-card is formatted with Fat32 in WIN10. The PDF-books I have stored onto the card when the SD-card was...

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Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo/iTunes) March Bride [Xtian Fictional Royalty Wedding...

The March Bride by Rachel Hauck is the 3rd novella in the multi-author A Year of Weddings series of f/m romances with a monthly pre-nuptial motif, this installment a tie-in to the 1st novel in her...

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Other Fiction Leroy, Amélie Claire: Miss Fenwick's Failures. v1. 27 Mar 2016

Amélie Claire Leroy: Born : 1851 or 1860 Lived : Winchester, Hampshire, England (final): Died : 1934 Mar 12 Excerpt NUMBER 13 Warcote Square,” said a young but very decided voice from the inside of a...

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Other Fiction Leroy, Amélie Claire: Miss Fenwick's Failures. v1. 27 Mar 2016

Amélie Claire Leroy: Born : 1851 or 1860 Lived : Winchester, Hampshire, England (final): Died : 1934 Mar 12 Excerpt NUMBER 13 Warcote Square,” said a young but very decided voice from the inside of a...

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Free (Kindle/Kobo/iTunes) The Friendship by Alison Croggon [YA Epic Fantasy...

The Friendship by South Africa-born Australia-resident Alison Croggon (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a tie-in prequel short story to her award-nominated Pellinor quartet of YA epic high fantasy adventures, this...

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Free (Kindle/Kobo/iTunes) The Gift by Alison Croggon [Award-Nom YA Epic Dark...

The Gift by South Africa-born Australia-resident Alison Croggon (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is the 1st novel in her Pellinor quartet of YA epic high fantasy adventures with apparently horror-ish elements, this...

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Sci-fi and Fantasy paperback Door Stopper novels

For my purposes a door stopper novel is any hardback or paperback that are over 1000 pages in length. Thus it is possible for the paperback to qualify while the hardback does not. What are the best...

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Does your Voyage vibrate, clunk of something else?

For haptic feedback, my "Amazon refurbished" Voyage makes a clunk sound in the back when I press a button. I thought I remembered testing one a year ago in the store and it vibrated. Curious as to what...

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Ramez Naam wins Philip K. Dick award

This weekend at NorWesCon 39, Ramez Naam won the P.K. Dick award for his novel "Apex" (which is the third book in a trilogy - the first book is "Nexus") Usually I don't like the P.K. Dick winners, and...

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Brand new to Calibre and I don't have a clue what I am doing

I am well known for saying about myself that to computer is an arcane gnosis the mysteries of which have yet to be vouchsafed unto me and that is once again proven true with Calibre and even this...

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