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Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by acabal on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:35PM (#4485799)
Can it read epubs yet?

I was thinking of buying a Nook Glowlight because I often read in bed while my partner sleeps. But when I went to check it out in the store, the contrast is noticeably worse on the Glowlight, to the point where I decided not to get one. If this new Kindle can read epubs, has a light, and has contrast that's at least as good as a regular Kindle, I'm sold.

Edit: I know I can convert files, but it's a big pain to be constantly converting a big library, especially since I very often correct ebooks in Sigil.

Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by eclipxe on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:21PM (#4486033)
Use Kindlegen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...)

Seriously. Calibre produces a very poor conversion. Kindlegen will retain much of the ePub fidelity.

Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by MikeKusold on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:25PM (#4486049)
Thank you! I've been using Calibre to convert everything. Is there a way to add WhisperSync too?
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by eblade on Thursday September 06, 2012 @10:35PM (#4487445)
If your kindle is non-3G, the content that you email to your kindle address will show up when it's connected to wifi.
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by mr_b on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:00PM (#4486208)
I convert to mobi using Calibre and mail to the amazon personal documents account ([email protected]). It adds WhisperSync.
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by ajtaylor on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:40PM (#4487606)
Thanks for this! I'm downloading it and the Kindle Previewer now. I don't yet have a Kindle, but my birthday and Christmas are coming soon. And of course I have the Kindle app on my Android phone. :)
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by esolyt on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:40PM (#4485818)
It is trivial to convert epub to mobi. Amazon has released a free tool for all platforms.
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by TillE on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:41PM (#4485825)
You can convert epubs easily with Calibre. I think it might even do it automatically when you tell it to put an epub on your Kindle.

However, the formatting doesn't always get converted properly.

Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by mfarazi on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:17PM (#4486007)
Check out the Kobo Glo. Seems to be what you're looking for.
Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by dredmorbius on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:10PM (#4486260)
That's my must-have.

Along with a growing aversion to vendor- (and increasingly: online-marketplace-) devices.

No, conversion isn't a substitute.

Re:Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite by baq on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:13PM (#4485987)
epub->mobi is a more or less lossless conversion using calibre.