Im having some fun today reading a few e-books on my computer! I belong to a Yahoo group that occasionally shares ebooks...but I always ignored them because I dont have a Kindle or a Nook or anything like that to download files that they take. Today it dawned on me...why dont I download a couple and see if there is a program on my computer that can read them. Nope....no joy. Undaunted and determined now....I decided to Google. FireFox has an extension that reads them! (I am sure there are many of you that are wondering what planet Ive been living on, ROTFL) So...I installed that epub reader extension...it put a little icon in my toolbar...you click that, then do the file/open click and then click on one that you have saved...I opened one that was tips on crockpot cooking...JOY! I read a bunch of chapters then I saw someone had shared a short ebook about living a minimalist life style...(certainly NOT my style...no minimalist HERE) but it had some interesting points about how to declutter 5 minutes a day. What fun! I dont know where the happy medium is...between minimalism and too cluttered. I would like to be somewhere in between! So....now I can go to Amazon and if something comes as an ebook, Ill be able to read it right away. (As long as its not expensive, LOL). And if there are any free shares in the group I belong to, Ill be able to read them! I also discovered a program that can be downloaded that converts any file to the epub file. Thats a good thing. Its called Calibre calibre-ebook/demo
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:21:57 +0000