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The 100 best mystery novels of all time. The original stories. The original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes appeared in a total of 60 stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published between 1887 and 1927.

The original stories

The four novels and five volumes of short stories now often appear as The Complete Sherlock Holmes. In addition, the complete "Canon" generally includes two prefaces by Arthur Conan Doyle. About the stories: start here.

Textbooks

Calibre tips and tricks: the calibre viewer. Today we explore the many features of calibres ebook viewer. calibre's ebook viewer allows you to view ebooks in all of the 22 input formats that calibre supports conversion from.

calibre tips and tricks: the calibre viewer

These include CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ, and no, I did not make that up ;-) They are all existing ebook formats. However by default only files in EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PRC nad RB formats are opened in the calibre internal viewer. This is because for the remaining formats, usually a better result is obtained by viewing in an external viewer; like acroread or okular for PDF. For these other formats calibre will automatically open the files in an external viewer unless you ask it to open in the internal viewer.

To choose which formats you would like to view using calibre's internal viewer go to Preferences -> Behavior -> and select the formats you want in the right column.

Blogs

Comics. 221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes.