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Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2211
Founded in 1982

Meetings

When: 2nd Sat. of the month, 9:30 am. Next Meetings: Sept 11, Oct 9, Nov 13

Where: St. Augustine Center, Villanova University Click here for Directions to Villanova

Sept 2010

MAIN MEETING TOPIC: CALIBRE - eBOOK MANAGER

We all know about e-book readers like the Nook & Kindle that you can hold in your hands, but how do you keep track of your expanding book collection? Especially your non-copy protected books. What do you do if you find a book you want that is in an incompatible file format with your physical reader? Do you keep looking for a compatible copy? Do you or would you like to subscribe to e-magazines and e-newspapers, but don't because you can't take them with you on your physical reader? Do you ever have a need to do some serious reporting based on the e-books your read? Do you find reading e-books with a desktop reader uncomfortable because you can't lean back to read?

Well, Tom J may show you a way that you can address all these issues with a desktop e-book manager called Calibre. As an e-manager, it is much more than just a reader. It has features and capabilities that surpass desktop readers like Kindle Desktop, Nook Desktop, GooReader, Adobe Digital Editions, Stanza, and others. However, the caveat is that it is limited to handling non-copy protected e-books.

For a video preview of Calibre, take a minute or so to visit the website at http://calibre-ebook.com/ .

Presentations and Topics

Our greatest strength as a group is our combined knowledge and interest in all things computing. Watch this space for the latest topics that keep us talking.

Calibre E-Book Manager Sept 2010
Internet TV Take 2 Apr 2010
BitTorrent Mar 2010
SlipStreaming (pdf) Feb 2010
Long Range wireless Internet Oct 2009
Buying a New Computer Sept 2009
IPTV with a Mac Mini Feb 2009
Vista Overview Sept 2008
Gspace & Google Notebook June 2008
Disk Cleaning & Performance.pdf May 2008
Google Docs Apr 2008
MythTV Mar 2008
Magic Jack - Internet Telephony Jan 2008
SpeedFan (pdf) Nov 2007
Videos! Oct 2007
KnoppiLights Upload Sept 2007
Disk File Cleanup (pdf) July 2007
Open Office Impress Presentation (pdf) Apr 2007
Open Office Intro (pdf), Sondigo Sirocco Sound Bridge (pdf) Feb 2007
Topic Archives

Audio Archives

Listen to our Meetings! We now have recordings of the monthly meetings (in mp3 format) available for download.

Apr 2010 QA/Items (9.2 MB), Presentation (19.8 MB)
March 2010QA/Items (10.4 MB), Presentation (12.9 MB)
Feb 2010 QA/Items (18.7 MB), Presentation (6.0 MB)
Jan 2010 Part 1 - QA/Items (19.9 MB), Part 2 - Presentation (14.8 MB)
Aug 2009 QA/Items (14MB), QA/Items part 2 (11.5MB)
July 2009 QA/Items (20.4MB), Presentation (11.6MB)
June 2009 QA/Items (22.3MB), Presentation (10.9MB)
May 2009 QA/Items (12.5MB), Presentation (15.5MB)
April 2009 QA/Items (15.7MB), No presentation - troubleshooting Wendy's computer - not recorded.
March 2009 QA/Items (15.7MB), Presentation (20.9MB)
Feb 2009 QA/Items (6.3MB), Presentation (17.4MB)
Jan 2009 - meeting cancelled
Earlier Meetings

Monthly Newsletters

For all the latest news on The Main Line Computer Users Group check out the Newsletters - now Browser Friendly!

Our Newsletter is published monthly and a paper version is mailed to all registered members. The Newsletter index is a great resource for finding and keeping track of all the valuable tid-bits our members know and share.

Commodore and Amiga Links

For many of us our computing roots are closely associated with Commodore computers. We maintain this list of links to keep up with the vibrant community that is still quite active.

TIFCU: The Internet For Commodore Users
The UnOfficial CMD Product Page
VideoCam Services (Rod and Gaelyne Gasson)
Craig Bruce's Page
UseNet Newsgroup comp.sys.cbm
www.amiga.com
www.amiga.org

Last modified: Tue Aug 31 21:43:52 2010