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Hey there. I’ve been reading a lot of classic books recently on my kindle Paper white because free PDFs for them are often online somewhere. Because the kindle paperwhite is terrible at PDFs I often convert them to mobi (or the ebook format it likes) through online converters, the problem these online converters Is there often extremely slow if you don’t pay for there online version (because they like to do sneaky things like limit connection speed and not throw a lot of processing power at you with these free versions). I have ok desktop and have wanted to do some upgrades for a while so wanted to know whether these programs are more cpu dependent or gpu dependent so I can plan accordingly. (Obviously I’m not building a entire rig around converting friggen PDFs but I just wanted it to be a factor, if small in my build)

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Ignore the grammatical errors, I typed this on a terrible digital iPad keyboard I am not used too and am too lazy to change it :P.

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Maybe try Calibre or https://convertio.co/, I find it's the best free online file conversion website.

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12 minutes ago, ScriptKiddo said:

I have ok desktop and have wanted to do some upgrades for a while so wanted to know whether these programs are more cpu dependent or gpu dependent so I can plan accordingly.

Those don't use the GPU at all, and are not that CPU intensive. As mentioned above, give Calibre a try.

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Calibre will convert to various formats. 

It should convert pretty much any book within a minute or two, even on very slow computers.  Books are mostly HTML (like web pages) and pictures and formatting, so there's no need to use video cards to process things, just a regular CPU is enough.

 

You can download free books from Project Gutenberg website in various formats... they're books with expired copyright, so legal. 

There's also archive org which has loads of magazines and stuff free for download, most of them legal ... and there's other more controversial websites which have lots of books.. won't say but you can give me a private message and ask me if interested

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