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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? How do you prefer to read books? Post 302871983 by alister on Thursday 7th of November 2013 12:22:53 PM
Old 11-07-2013
While I can certainly appreciate the utility and convenience of being able to carry thousands of books in a hundred grams, and being able to quickly search voluminous references, when it comes to reading for pleasure, I will always kill a tree.

I enjoy turning pages. Sometimes, I enjoy smelling them too (please, don't spread that around). I enjoy how the weight shifts as I progress through those pages. And, finally, I enjoy being able to just hand a book to someone and say, "Read this. It's fantastic."

Regards,
Alister
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FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1) 					      calibre						   FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)

NAME
fetch-ebook-metadata - part of calibre SYNOPSIS
fetch-ebook-metadata [options] DESCRIPTION
Fetch book metadata from online sources. You must specify at least one of title, author, publisher or ISBN. If you specify ISBN, the others are ignored. Whenever you pass arguments to fetch-ebook-metadata that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. OPTIONS
--version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -t, --title Book title -a, --author Book author(s) -p, --publisher Book publisher -i, --isbn Book ISBN -m, --max-results Maximum number of results to fetch -k, --isbndb-key The access key for your ISBNDB.com account. Only needed if you want to search isbndb.com and you haven't customized the IsbnDB plug- in. -v, --verbose Be more verbose about errors SEE ALSO
The User Manual is available at http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net> fetch-ebook-metadata (calibre 0.6.53) July 2010 FETCH-EBOOK-METADATA(1)
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