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Great deal on some Tolkien related books in the latest Humble Bundle (ePUB and PDF)

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/all- ... kien-books

Pay at least €17.72 for these 27 items

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Mythmaker: The Life of J.R.R. Tolkien, Creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
The Road to Middle-Earth
The Wizard's Dessert Cookbook
Tolkien's Art
Defending Middle-Earth
Ents, Elves, and Eriador
Breaking the Magic Spell
Tolkien and the Great War

Famous, 1914-1918 - Includes chapter on Tolkien
The Well at the World's End
Walking English
War in Heaven
All Hallows' Eve
Descent into Hell
Many Dimensions
Shadows of Ecstasy
The Ballad of the White Horse
Influenced Tolkien
The Beasts of Valhalla
The Book of English Magic
The Greater Trumps
The Place of the Lion
The Tao of Travel
We Install
She
Beowulf
Fifty-One Tales
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Wow!
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Ditto! That's incredible. My only concern is my lack of shelf space...
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They're PDFs and Ebooks Eldy...
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LOL, that's what I get for not paying enough attention (and posting after not sleeping the night before). :blackeye: Thanks, Al!
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I didn't realize it was ebooks either.
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Sometimes I forget that paper books exist. :blackeye: Although if it's something I know I will want to reread, I'll buy paper just to be sure it won't vanish into ether.

Thanks for the tip!

PS oh bugger, it's not a Kindle format.
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You can email a PDF or EPUB to your Kindle and it will convert Frelga.

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/pdf-to-kindle
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Kindle will read PDF, but EPUB requires jumping through hoops. Google Books should open EPUB, if I want to read on the phone.

Stupid proprietary formats.
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No, its simple. Email the Epub to your Kindle address. I just did it.
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Right, I can get files on Kindle, that's not a problem.

Can you open them with the Kindle app? I thought you have to convert with Caliber?

I think Inanna mentioned using OverDrive, but I believe that's been discontinued in favor of Libby, which cannot open outside files AFAIK.
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You simply email the ePub files to your Kindle address and it converts them to Kindle format. Then you can read in the Kindle app.
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Huh. Cool, thanks, I'll try that.
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