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[oyceter]

Gentle readers, I have finally managed to root my Nook Touch! Alas, Aldiko still doesn't seem to grab tags from Calibre, but at least I have it accessing my Calibre2opds-generated catalog from my computer...

And now, on to obsessively tagging my ebooks!

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[estara]

I don't know if any of the readers support it other than the Sony. I started with Sony Readers and my second one is one, too - so I automatically get all the tags as collections.

Good luck with organising in any case and yay for eReader owning! Welcome to the world of freebies and cheap sales and backlist books available and the occasional wtf about formatting and high prices included.

[veejane]

Speaking as someone from The Land That Technology Forgot, I am reading your little note as "I have finally managed to flippityflop my hoogaboom! And then I wiggle-woggled with the skittamaring and now everything is Engelbert Humperdink!"

...But the final sentence leads me to believe it involves cataloging collections, of which hobby I always approve.

[pylduck]

huzzah! also, i wanted to ask if you'd be interested in reading and reviewing a collection of fantasy-ish stories for asianamlitfans.livejournal.com. if so, send me an email shadowy@pylduck.com! the title is: RETURNING MY SISTER’S FACE And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice by Eugie Foster (Norilana Books, 2009).

[pylduck]

ps we have a pdf of the book from the publisher.

[oyceter]

I knooooowwwww! I am so jealous! I love the Nook Touch in terms of reading individual books, but the library organization, ugh.

[oyceter]

Hee! I kind of felt like that while embarking on all the gobbledygook and trying to look it up online: "If you want to flibber with your Nook Touch, you can blah with aw;efoij but that won't let you whatsit, but if you moogle with awaeof, which is different from aw;efoij, you can whatsit but not howzat!"

Me: "I just want to blah! How do I blah?"
Internet: (incredibly detailed instructions and vague handwaviness halfway through as of course anyone who blahs MUST know how to bleck!)

I am very excited about further cataloging and categorization!

[oyceter]

Email sent!

[estara]

*ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL*

[estara]

That title is also available to buy on Smashwords - who do no DRM, so you would be able to import it as .epub to your Nook, too (from what I read the Nook can read your average .epub and Adobe DRM epub, I believe - the only problem is if you ever change away from a Nook Reader, because the version of DRM that the Nook .epubs have is NOT compatible to Adobe Digital Editions readers). You'd have to buy it there, though, heh.

Oh and I'd be interested in your impressions of reading .pdf on a Nook. I've been semi-happy on my Sony.

[lady_ganesh]

I finally got brave enough to jailbreak my Kindle last week, and man it is SO FREEING. I have custom screensavers now! HOT DAMN.

[scruloose]

I firmly believe that no matter how much you pay for a device, unless you hold the root account (and the keypair for any crypto or DRM), you don't actually own it. Especially after some of the horrendous abuses of DRM we've seen, such as Amazon "revoking" people's already-bought-and-downloaded copies of 1984. Yes, really, 1984.

Congratulations, it is now your Nook Touch. It's a good feeling, isn't it?

...on that note, I've been meaning to root my Android phone...

[oyceter]

It does feel good! It's not doing everything I want it to, but it was really cool just knowing I managed to do it.