Re: Creating files for a Kindle

From: markscala@gmail.com
To: Graham Smith <myotistwo@gmail.com>,
	org-mode-list Org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Creating files for a Kindle
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:08:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbf1s4mo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=40G5igpjz-voTCiF848e0+3zs8S+HXp+01S7K@mail.gmail.com> (Graham Smith's message of "Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:21:08 +0000")

One thing that works for me is this: export a file or subtree to html,
then send to [myname]@kindle.free.com.  Then, when my Kindle is
connected to the internet, it will automatically download Amazon's
conversion of my html file.  This happens pretty quickly, in my
experience, so it will almost certainly be faster than other methods
described in this thread.

Mark

Graham Smith <myotistwo@gmail.com> writes:

> Jeff,
>
>    
>     Ah, that's a bit disappointing. Do you have DX? My manual says
>     that
>     HTML is directly supported, with loads of other formats, so maybe
>     it's
>     a DX only feature?
>
>
> It's not the DX (I don't think the DX is available in the UK, it
> certainly isn't on the Amazon UK  site) BUT on the US site it says
> that HTML is supported "through conversion"
>
> However, with the bigger screen PDFs might work OK, but they don't
> work very well on the smaller screen.
>
>    
>     > The Orgmode to XHTML to SIGIL to ePub to Calibre to MOBI (for
>     the Kindle)
>     > works extremely well, and for proper books looks good.
>    
>     Great! I'm really glad you found something that works!
>    
>
>
> It certainly works well for proper documents, but a bit of a hassle
> for quick updates. Where in fact HTML files with the extension
> chnaged to txt might still be the best option.
>
> Graham
>
>
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