Friday, December 9, 2011

.rar compression and ePub reader

Are you having trouble opening .rar files on you Ubuntu distro?
Well, it's very easy to fix that in the next 30 seconds. Just type on the terminal:

sudo apt-get install unrar-free

Another good app I found recently was Calibre. I have just recently bought an eReader for my wife and after picking up a few books I wanted to find a way to read some of these books (ePub format books) on my laptop. In order to do that I am now using this nice little application called Calibre, which not only allows me to read books in eReader formats, but it also works as a manager for eReaders. Very handy if you are looking for something like that on Linux.

Buying the eReader was actually quite a process, which I may post about at a later date. I ended up buying the Kobo for a few good reasons:

1- It seems much more flexible in terms of format than the Kindle
2- Cheaper than the Sony eReader
3- Has a much bigger library of books for Canadian customers
4- It's a Canadian product and I like to support our industry where I can

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