Kindle Help on Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/help/kindle


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Browsing the Kindle Download Guide


The Kindle Download Guide is the easiest way to download public domain and creative commons books from Feedbooks. It could be describded as having an on-demand library on your Kindle.
Step 1: The guide is a simple file that you need to add on your Kindle. The URL for this file is http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide
Open the browser on your Kindle and open this URL
OR download this file and send it to your Kindle using the USB cable
OR download this file and send it to your Kindle using your e-mail: [user]@kindle.com
Step 2: Find yourself something to read. You could:
Flip through the guide, you'll find books in alphabetical order, then authors in alphabetical order and finally lists (There's a table of contents for all this, you can access this any time you want through the Kindle user interface).
Type a keyword using the search feature of your Kindle. Works very well as soon as the guide is fully indexed (you'll have to wait for a few seconds after downloading the guide for your Kindle to fully index this file).

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Searching on the Kindle



Step 3: To download a book (make sure that the EVDO connection is on), select the right line in the guide using the scrollwheel. A pop-up will show up, select the name of the book and your Kindle will download the file.

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Downloading a book


Step 4: Enjoy reading your book, it is now available on your Kindle !
Updating: At the beginning of the guide, you'll find a link to update this guide. The guide is updated a few times every week. Make sure that you manually delete the old version of the guide once you've updated.

Thanks!

Any feedback yet ?

I tried it and the links work great! Thanks so much!

I tried it and the links work great! Thanks so much!

OK. I don't really know how the search works on the Kindle. Tried to divide everything in an easy way to browse though, and there's a TOC with all the authors.

I hadn't notice the Table of Contents at first because it put me right into the book list, but the ToC does register with the Kindle so I can get to it through the menu. Both by Author and by First Letter of Title show up.

Ok Alisa.

I've noticed a little bug, the books were listed under the right letter but not in alphabetical order. I uploaded a new version of the guide.

Hadrien, I tried downloading a few books as well. It gave me a message that "There was an error...." but the download worked smoothly in any case. Thanks.

I feel like I now have an access to a nice (and free) library with a catalogue.

Hadrien, I tried downloading a few books as well. It gave me a message that "There was an error...." but the download worked smoothly in any case. Thanks.

I feel like I now have an access to a nice (and free) library with a catalogue.

You get an error message, yet everything works ? Strange... What is the error message exactly ?

Hadrian, could you tell us some more about this project, perhaps also for those (without a Kindle yet) who cannot read the guide? Thanks ;)

You get an error message, yet everything works ? Strange... What is the error message exactly ?
Hadrien, I think it was Kindle's message that it was unable to connect - but then connected anyway. I don't think it had anything to do with Feedbooks.

Hadrian, could you tell us some more about this project, perhaps also for those (without a Kindle yet) who cannot read the guide? Thanks ;)

OK. First of all, anyone can read the guide. It's a normal Mobipocket file. This file should work just fine on smartphone/PDA too and I've tried it a few times on the Mobipocket Reader for Windows.

Basically, once Amazon released the Kindle, I started thinking about how Feedbooks as a service could be useful for Kindle users. First of all, I needed Mobipocket support. That's done for books, and will be available asap for feeds/newspapers.
Now, there's a few ways you can get content on the Kindle:
- Through USB (it's a UMS device) or a SD card
- Using the Kindle browser
- Links to Mobipocket/Kindle books in a file
- E-mail

What I'm planning to do with Feedbooks, is to offer the possibility for our users to get content these 4 different ways.

USB/SD

The Kindle is a UMS device, it acts like a normal hard drive. People can download books on their desktop computers and easily sync them to their Kindle.

For feeds, it's going to be a little different.
As soon as we've made Mobipocket available for feeds/newspapers we'll release a little tool that basically download all your feeds to your Kindle as soon as you connect it to your desktop computer. You wake up in the morning, plug your Kindle to your computer, and it syncs everything for you.

Browser

We're working on a mobile version of Feedbooks.com that should work just fine on the Kindle. This way, you'll just have to go to mobile.feedbooks.com or a similar URL on your Kindle to browse and download books/feeds.

Links inside a book

On all of our Mobipocket books, you'll notice that at the beginning and the end of each book, we link to additional books. Just follow one of this link and it automatically download the book on your device.

The download guide works the same way. It's basically a file with all the books currently available on Feedbooks in it. Browse/search for a book, select the link and you get the book on your Kindle.

E-mail

I'll add the possibility on the website to e-mail yourself a book. You'll just have to authorize our e-mail address, and then using your computer, browse the books that'll be automatically sent on your Kindle. You'll have to pay the 0.10$ fee from Amazon if you decide to use this option.

On the syncing software for USB, we might also add an e-mail option. This way, every day it'll send you an e-mail with all your feeds.

I tried it and I like it! I was able to immediately find a book I wanted on your list and the download went great.

If you make future updates to the "guide" it would be cool if we could register with our kindle email and then the newly updated guide gets sent out once a month or however often you update it. I like that idea better than even having the books emailed to me as it will save a bit of money, yet the convenience is the same.

"For feeds, it's going to be a little different.
As soon as we've made Mobipocket available for feeds/newspapers we'll release a little tool that basically download all your feeds to your Kindle as soon as you connect it to your desktop computer. You wake up in the morning, plug your Kindle to your computer, and it syncs everything for you."

Hadrien, it will be nicer if we could download the feeds directly using the Kindle instead of having to connect to our computer. Say, we go to the mobile Feedbooks site using the kindle and do one click and have the feeds dowloaded (just like the book download).

The service you are providing is awesome! Thanks.

Bhagwan

"For feeds, it's going to be a little different.
As soon as we've made Mobipocket available for feeds/newspapers we'll release a little tool that basically download all your feeds to your Kindle as soon as you connect it to your desktop computer. You wake up in the morning, plug your Kindle to your computer, and it syncs everything for you."

Hadrien, it will be nicer if we could download the feeds directly using the Kindle instead of having to connect to our computer. Say, we go to the mobile Feedbooks site using the kindle and do one click and have the feeds dowloaded (just like the book download).

The service you are providing is awesome! Thanks.

Bhagwan

Well that's exactly what I've said, you'll have the choice:
- sync through USB
- on the mobile website
- using another "download guide" but for your feeds
- automatically by e-mail

I tried it and I like it! I was able to immediately find a book I wanted on your list and the download went great.

If you make future updates to the "guide" it would be cool if we could register with our kindle email and then the newly updated guide gets sent out once a month or however often you update it. I like that idea better than even having the books emailed to me as it will save a bit of money, yet the convenience is the same.

I wonder if you download the same book twice, will it erase the old one with the new version ?

In this case, I could add an "update" link in the guide itself, this way people could easily update the guide whenever they want. We would generate a new guide every day in this case.

Updated the guide and the first message in this thread:
- The guide is now updated on Feedbooks. Not generated live, but frequently, should be easy to keep it updated.
- There's a link to update the guide at the beginning of the guide.
- Added lists in the guide.

Anyone could try the update link ? See if it destroy the older version on the Kindle, or if you end up with 2 files ?
If anyone could do a few photos of the guide on their Kindle it would be fantastic:
1) Selecting the guide on the Kindle
2) Searching for a book
3) Downloading the book
4) Opening the newly downloaded book

This way I could post a nice little tutorial on our blog, and even try some mainstream websites. Places like Lifehacker for example might be interested in this kind of trick.

Alas, the update link doesn't work. It attempts to download it and gets the error "Basic Web was unable to save this file because a file with the same name already exists on your Kindle. Please use the Content manager to remove the existing file and try again".

Perhaps you could add a version number to the guide name/title and have each one have a link to the next expected version? Or just a link to a landing page where the most recent guide will be listed (they would still need to be unique, but then the person checking for an update could just skip to whatever the recent one was, without having to upgrade version by version).

Alas, the update link doesn't work. It attempts to download it and gets the error "Basic Web was unable to save this file because a file with the same name already exists on your Kindle. Please use the Content manager to remove the existing file and try again".

Perhaps you could add a version number to the guide name/title and have each one have a link to the next expected version? Or just a link to a landing page where the most recent guide will be listed (they would still need to be unique, but then the person checking for an update could just skip to whatever the recent one was, without having to upgrade version by version).

I'll add the date of the last update in the name. Should be enough. Too bad that the browser doesn't give the choice between replacing the old file, or keeping it.

If anyone could do a few photos of the guide on their Kindle it would be fantastic:

Not photos, but I took some screenshots using the shortcut Alt-shift-G that Igor found. They don't fully show what you need to select with the scrollbar, but should give an idea of what it looks like. Screen shots are of:


Home page with Kindle Download Guide listed. Note that there are two versions on the device. The new one named "Kindle Download Guide" and first one you did named "Download Guide".
First page of content of the Guide.
After selecting the line with a title of a book, it pops up a window with actions to take
After selecting the action corresponding to the book title, it pops up a window asking you to confirm download. The background is whatever you were looking at last using Basic Web. In my case I previously demoed a wikipedia lookup of "brain" for someone.
What the home screen looks like after the book is downloaded.
Selecting the new book opens the first page of the book
The error you get if you try to download a file with the same name as one on the device already

Here's some of what happens when you search.


Pressing the search key on any screen opens the search bar.
The results page after a search -- it searches all books on the Kindle, looks for a dictionary entry and provides links to websearch and wikipedia searches. This page takes awhile to load if you lots of books on the device. You can shortcut to web or wiki search, but not to dictionary or a specific book. It shows there are 3 matches to 'candide' within the Kindle Download Guide
After selecting the Kindle Download Guide link it lists a snippet around each search hit.
After selecting the first search hit, you are taken to the part of the Guide that has the link to Candide.

Fantastic zartemis, that's even better than screenshots actually !
I'll do a real tutorial thanks to your help.

I'll fix the download problem tonight: I'll add the date to the name of the file, this way, it should download the new guide, although you'll have to erase the older guide.

Ok. Took care of the update problem.
As long as you don't download the guide twice in the same day it'll be fine.

The URL of the guide changed: http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide

Next step: Using those screenshots to add a tutorial on Feedbooks

Ok, I have to say that I wasn't a big visitor to your feedbooks page, but after trying this on my Kindle, I have to say you rock. So I will: You rock!

This worked perfect with my Kindle, and the mobi versions that I downloaded worked and looked great. Thank you.

May I ask how many books we have access too with this method? I want to start bragging and sharing the info with my friends.

This pretty much will keep me from ever having to visit Project Gutenberg again!

May I ask how many books we have access too with this method? I want to start bragging and sharing the info with my friends.

This pretty much will keep me from ever having to visit Project Gutenberg again!

About 2.000 books I believe. Feedbooks keep on growing and growing, but we don't simply mass convert books (wouldn't look any good, all of our books have a TOC and chapter headers/page breaks for example), so the growth pace also depends from our users.

Love the book listing file, and have downloaded a few books, however I need to report a couple weirdnessess.

1) Using the file dated 12/21/07, I downloaded an update from the embedded link. It successfully downloaded and created an entry in the Kindle home page with the identical title/date as the original. The only difference is the new one does not have Feedbooks.com in the Author field (it is blank).

2) Wuthering Heights does not download. It keeps claiming I already have the file on my Kindle (which I don't). Not sure to how to determine exactly what filename it's trying to use.

Thanks for any help/fixes you can provide.
Earl

Love the book listing file, and have downloaded a few books, however I need to report a couple weirdnessess.

1) Using the file dated 12/21/07, I downloaded an update from the embedded link. It successfully downloaded and created an entry in the Kindle home page with the identical title/date as the original. The only difference is the new one does not have Feedbooks.com in the Author field (it is blank).

2) Wuthering Heights does not download. It keeps claiming I already have the file on my Kindle (which I don't). Not sure to how to determine exactly what filename it's trying to use.

Thanks for any help/fixes you can provide.
Earl

1) Is normal behavior if we didn't updated the file since your last update.

2) Is obviously a bug on the Kindle side. Usually the file name is "Author - Title.mobi". Anyone had this bug too ?

Edit: Admins/Moderators, don't you think that this thread should be a sticky ?

Wow! This is awesome! I love it!! Great job :) BTW since you're making tutorials, there is a possible scenario where someone would download your guide/book list, then try to do a search, but the Kindle hasn't indexed the book yet so the search results wouldn't show up in the list (but it would identify the item(s) that weren't indexed yet). I only mentioned it cause it happened to me :)

1) Is normal behavior if we didn't updated the file since your last update.

2) Is obviously a bug on the Kindle side. Usually the file name is "Author - Title.mobi". Anyone had this bug too ?



I could be wrong, but I believe the Wuthering Heights entry is attempting to give the file a null name, which results in the error. Could you take a look at the Download Guide and see if it's missing the filename?

Thanks.

I could be wrong, but I believe the Wuthering Heights entry is attempting to give the file a null name, which results in the error. Could you take a look at the Download Guide and see if it's missing the filename?

Thanks.

Think I know where the problem is coming from. The "ë" from Brontë might be the problem. Could you test with another e-book from one of the Brontë sisters ?

Think I know where the problem is coming from. The "ë" from Brontë might be the problem. Could you test with another e-book from one of the Brontë sisters ?

I think you've nailed it. Same error when trying to snag "Jane Eyre". I also was unable to get the book by Stephane Mallarmé.

Is this something you can fix at your end?

I think you've nailed it. Same error when trying to snag "Jane Eyre".

Is this something you can fix at your end?

Yeah, I guess I can escape the characters that can be a problem on the Kindle. I need a way to find all the characters that are not supported though...

Also another data point that is more a function/operation of the Kindle and operator error. I encounter the same error message that zartemis encountered, but it was with Orwell/1984 which I knew to be good/valid. The problem occurred because I started to download the file, then I went to another page on the web (on the Kindle) and the file/download did not complete. When I went to download it again, zartemis' error said to delete it from the Content Manager. Because it didn't complete, it didn't show up under the CM. I had to hook it up to my computer via USB (how old school) and then delete the truncated .mobi file.

Also another data point that is more a function/operation of the Kindle and operator error. I encounter the same error message that zartemis encountered, but it was with Orwell/1984 which I knew to be good/valid. The problem occurred because I started to download the file, then I went to another page on the web (on the Kindle) and the file/download did not complete. When I went to download it again, zartemis' error said to delete it from the Content Manager. Because it didn't complete, it didn't show up under the CM. I had to hook it up to my computer via USB (how old school) and then delete the truncated .mobi file.

Well, I guess that I can understand why they call the browser "experimental" now...

OK, here's the upcoming updates to the guide:
- escaping the characters that the Kindle doesn't support. I don't exactly have a list of those characters, I'll escape the accents, it should be a pretty good start.
- links on the author name. This way if you've found a book and you'd like to see what else is available for this author, it'll be much easier.
- once we've launched our mobile website: I'll link the types to the right webpage on our website. This way it'll be easy to jump from the guide to the website.

Anyone found another bug, or would like to share an idea ?

Hadrien, I love what you're doing!

I just tried to download La Dame aux Camelias. My Kindle would not accept it, saying I already have a file with the same name. I have the English translation, but not the original French. Is my Kindle translating on me?

Laurel

Hadrien, I love what you're doing!

I just tried to download La Dame aux Camelias. My Kindle would not accept it, saying I already have a file with the same name. I have the English translation, but not the original French. Is my Kindle translating on me?

Laurel

No, I think that it's the same problem than with the Brontë sisters. It's "La Dame aux Camélias", in this case the "é" might be the problem.

No, I think that it's the same problem than with the Brontë sisters. It's "La Dame aux Camélias", in this case the "é" might be the problem.

Thanks. I took the accent off, and now I have the French version. The English version has disappeared, however.

FALSE ALARM--Now I have both. It just took awhile for Kindle to register them. Laurel

OK, updated the first message on the topic:
- characters that are not supported on the Kindle are now escaped
- added a help page on Feedbooks
- there's links on the authors now

OK, updated the first message on the topic:
- characters that are not supported on the Kindle are now escaped
- added a help page on Feedbooks
- there's links on the authors now

Perfect. My wife is now enjoying Wuthering Heights.

A tip of the hat to you, sir!

Earl

I've just had a fantastic idea form...I have tons of books from the sf ebooks website, webscriptions.net. All of these I have purchased legally, and was able to convienently re-downlowad them to my computer in the kindle friendly mobipocket format. I have nearly 500 of these books (including the ones from the baen free cds and free library) And while they all fit, it is tough to really navigate them well, there are lots of series, and I find my self constantly visiting my "series list" document on my kindle in order to find out which book is supposed to be next chronologically, and then I have to go back to the home page, and either search for the book, or flip the page some odd number of times to reach the right book.
I am pretty un-familuar with programming, html, and the mobipocket format, but seeing this awesome easily usable document got me thinking. Would there be a way for me to either
A) create a mobipocket document on my kindle that has links that actually take me to that particular book without my having to manually go back out and navigate it, or
B) create one giant mobipocket file perhaps, that has all the books from one of the series in one book called "such and such series" and then the table of contents actually links me to those books within the file, or (ideally)
C) be able to create my own online library of sorts with these books stored on a server somewhere, and me with the ability to download them using this document in the order I specify?

Anyone know?

I've just had a fantastic idea form...I have tons of books from the sf ebooks website, webscriptions.net. All of these I have purchased legally, and was able to convienently re-downlowad them to my computer in the kindle friendly mobipocket format. I have nearly 500 of these books (including the ones from the baen free cds and free library) And while they all fit, it is tough to really navigate them well, there are lots of series, and I find my self constantly visiting my "series list" document on my kindle in order to find out which book is supposed to be next chronologically, and then I have to go back to the home page, and either search for the book, or flip the page some odd number of times to reach the right book.
I am pretty un-familuar with programming, html, and the mobipocket format, but seeing this awesome easily usable document got me thinking. Would there be a way for me to either
A) create a mobipocket document on my kindle that has links that actually take me to that particular book without my having to manually go back out and navigate it, or
B) create one giant mobipocket file perhaps, that has all the books from one of the series in one book called "such and such series" and then the table of contents actually links me to those books within the file, or (ideally)
C) be able to create my own online library of sorts with these books stored on a server somewhere, and me with the ability to download them using this document in the order I specify?

Anyone know?

A) Should be possible but it's not. This works with Mobipocket files on the Mobipocket reader for Windows, but it doesn't work on the Kindle or the Cybook.
B) Possible. That's what people who upload omnibus editions usually do on this forum.
C) Possible too, it would basically work like the download guide for Feedbooks.

Hadrien,

You sir are amazing. Thanks, what a great job. The only thing I can add would be links for categories. Ie: sci-fi, classics, etc.


-d

Hadrien,

You sir are amazing. Thanks, what a great job. The only thing I can add would be links for categories. Ie: sci-fi, classics, etc.


-d

It's planned. But I don't want to add this directly in the guide: I believe that for the categories, it's very important to be able to list the latest books added in this category or the one that are the most downloaded.

Once our mobile edition is ready, I'll link the categories in the guide to the website, and I'll also add a few direct links to the mobile edition in front of the guide. This way, you'll seamlessly move from the guide to the mobile edition, depending on what you're looking for.

If you have not done so, is it possible to create a link in the guide to download the latest guide itself? I don't know if that is possible given the fact that the guide is being "read" at that moment.

If you have not done so, is it possible to create a link in the guide to download the latest guide itself? I don't know if that is possible given the fact that the guide is being "read" at that moment.

It's already in the guide, take a look at the second page.

I've only poked at this briefly (so far!) but it seems like a great idea, so I'll definitely be poking more. ;)

The one bit of feedback I have so far, though, is that the list isn't actually alphabetical... at least, not in the sense the term is usually used in dealing with books. You have, for example, "A Christmas Carol" listed under A, when instead it should be under C. Makes it hard to find things!

Other than that, looks good so far, keep up the good work!

I've only poked at this briefly (so far!) but it seems like a great idea, so I'll definitely be poking more. ;)

The one bit of feedback I have so far, though, is that the list isn't actually alphabetical... at least, not in the sense the term is usually used in dealing with books. You have, for example, "A Christmas Carol" listed under A, when instead it should be under C. Makes it hard to find things!

Other than that, looks good so far, keep up the good work!

Yeah I agree, I'll see what I can do to fix that too.

If you know what you're looking for, the easiest way to get it, is to use the search feature on your Kindle. Just type "christmas carol" and your Kindle, will find a match in the Kindle download guide.

Hadrien,

Would it be possible to put an actual link on your site to kindleguide? I know at some point, I'll have lost the bookmark and forgotten the page name.

Hadrien,

Would it be possible to put an actual link on your site to kindleguide? I know at some point, I'll have lost the bookmark and forgotten the page name.

Currently, on the main page for the public domain section, there's random tips displayed, one of them pointing to the Kindle help page: http://www.feedbooks.com/help/kindle

On the mobile edition of the website, I'll display on the homepage a link directly explaining how the guide works.

Awesome. BTW, now that I've had a chance to examine the guide further, I'm quite impressed. This really is about the most convenient way I can think of to download, and I love the "lists" and commentary. Well done!

Awesome. BTW, now that I've had a chance to examine the guide further, I'm quite impressed. This really is about the most convenient way I can think of to download, and I love the "lists" and commentary. Well done!

Yeah, it's very convenient to download books this way. Too bad that you can't overwrite a file on the Kindle though, it would make the process of updating the guide easier.

GREAT STUFF!!

I mean, theoretically, at least. Now, if my Kindle would only arrive, I'd be in seventh heaven! Till then, I'm searching and learning everything I can about how to use it. THIS is a marvelous addition!!!

Hadrien,

Very cool service sir! Now if only my Kindle would arrive so I could use it ;-)

Just launched a mobile edition of Feedbooks at http://www.feedbooks.com/mobile

Posted a dedicated thread here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19465

Any Kindle user tried this yet ? I'd like to link the guide to a few pages of the mobile edition, for example, clicking on "Science Fiction" would list all SF books on the mobile edition. Same stuff for recently added books and top downloaded books.

Added a few links in the guide that will point directly to the mobile website. This way, if you searched for "Accelerando" for example, when you open the guide and see "Science Fiction" you can also click on it. This will redirect you to the mobile website, where you'll be able to browse all Science Fiction books, and also take a look at the recently added and top downloaded SF books.

Next step for mobile Feedbooks + Kindle will be support for comments. This way, as soon as you've finished reading a book on your Kindle, you'll be able to leave your impressions on the book.

I tried it on my Kindle and it works really well. Thanks man!

But for now, I still prefer your Auto-download guide since that one is searchable directly on Kindle. Do you provide more books on the website than the guide book?

Well, you might get a few more books since it's instantly updated.

It's just a different way to access our database of books. For example, the guide is perfect if you're searching for a book. But if you're for example looking for a new detective story, you can't see the most popular books on the guide, while you can on the mobile website.

I consider that both of them are useful, but for different purposes. I like the fact that we can link together those e-books, the guide and the mobile version. I'll keep on improving things this way.

The guide is now auto-generated every 48H.
You can now log-in, post comments, get recommendations etc... on the mobile website.

Even if you're using the guide, I recommend to log in at least once on the mobile website. This way, it'll log your downloads and provide you with customized recommended books.

Hadrien, thanks for all the effort you put in for Kindle users.

Is there any issue with your new autogen script? I am having trouble download the latest Kindle guide, even from my desktop computer. However the download of regular ebooks seems to be find on my kindle.

Hadrien, thanks for all the effort you put in for Kindle users.

Is there any issue with your new autogen script? I am having trouble download the latest Kindle guide, even from my desktop computer. However the download of regular ebooks seems to be find on my kindle.

Yeah I'm aware of this issue. I'll fix it today and add a little bit of text at the beginning of the guide too.

Edit: Should be okay now.

I've been using the Guide and I think it's fantastic.

However there is one minor suggestion I have. Could the TOC be right justified so that the letters are nearer Kindle's cursor? Currently they are far enough away that I need to guess if I hit the right letter.

Anyway thanks for Guide. I'll never run out of reading material!

Frank

I've been using the Guide and I think it's fantastic.

However there is one minor suggestion I have. Could the TOC be right justified so that the letters are nearer Kindle's cursor? Currently they are far enough away that I need to guess if I hit the right letter.

Anyway thanks for Guide. I'll never run out of reading material!

Frank

Done. Should be available in the next guide update (24/48H).

Hello - just wanted to post and say thank you for such a wonderful resource. I received my Kindle Thursday. After loading the feedbooks guide I am simply amazed at the wealth of reading material available to download. Thank you so much for your efforts on this.

Hello - just wanted to post and say thank you for such a wonderful resource. I received my Kindle Thursday. After loading the feedbooks guide I am simply amazed at the wealth of reading material available to download. Thank you so much for your efforts on this.

I'm glad that the guide is helpful :thumbsup:

The TOC is now aligned to the left of the screen. Should be much easier to select something: http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide

The TOC is now aligned to the left of the screen. Should be much easier to select something: http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide

Yes, it does. Thanks so much!

Frank

I'm glad that the guide is helpful :thumbsup:
It's very very helpful. :)
Hadrien, any news on the cover and rss support for mobi formats? I know you'll announce it when it is ready. Just want to let you know ppl do really want it! :thanks:

It's very very helpful. :)
Hadrien, any news on the cover and rss support for mobi formats? I know you'll announce it when it is ready. Just want to let you know ppl do really want it! :thanks:

Well I've been mostly working on the epub output lately, which is now fully valid and multi-flows. Whenever a handheld device start supporting epub, Feedbooks is ready.

Cover shouldn't be much of a problem, RSS is slightly more difficult...

I can see that a lot of users are already using our guide for the Kindle, the guide is downloaded a few hundred times every day and a lot of our downloads are Mobipocket/Kindle now.

Juste wondering about something: could anyone be kind enough to make a video tutorial for the guide ?

Showing how to download the guide in the browser, and then use the guide to download a few books ? I'd love to add this on the help page to show how it works (can't do it myself, I'm in France: no EVDO), and I'm pretty sure that it would be interesting for a lot of potential Kindle users too.

Added recent books and top downloads (previous week) at the beginning of the guide. Should be up later this week.

No answer to my previous post ? :'(

Hi Hadrien,

Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your work--the Kindle Download guide is just amazing! Best thing I've downloaded on the Kindle. :)

The 'Recent Books' and 'Top Downloads' lists are a great help, Hadrien. Thank you for the wonderful service you are providing.

The 'Recent Books' and 'Top Downloads' lists are a great help, Hadrien. Thank you for the wonderful service you are providing.

Still trying to gradually improve the guide and our Mobipocket output. I've recently added covers on the Mobipocket files and I'm still trying to find the best way to provide personalized recommendations in the guide.

For the moment, personalized recommendations can be accessed through the normal or mobile website.

I am a new Kindle owner and have been debating about sending it back, in part, as I'm afraid I might go broke buying every book I want to read! ;-) Since finding this site today, I've downloaded the guide and used your mobile site to find and download several books already. So I've made up my mind -- I'm keeping my Kindle. Thanks so much for a great resource!!!!

Juste wondering about something: could anyone be kind enough to make a video tutorial for the guide ?

Showing how to download the guide in the browser, and then use the guide to download a few books ? I'd love to add this on the help page to show how it works (can't do it myself, I'm in France: no EVDO), and I'm pretty sure that it would be interesting for a lot of potential Kindle users too.

I'd be glad to try. Do you want to PM or e-mail me to discuss? Since this is a long (holiday) weekend, I should have some spare time.

There is a 6 minute Kindle Demonstration video on the Kindle order page that may cover a lot of what Hadrien is looking for.

I'd be glad to try. Do you want to PM or e-mail me to discuss? Since this is a long (holiday) weekend, I should have some spare time.

Thank you Elsi, I'll send you a PM asap.

It would be different from the video on the Kindle's page daffy4u, more of a tutorial/demo of how the Kindle Guide works. I'm sure it would be very helpful for newbies but also convince new consumers to buy this device.

For example:
1) Turning the Kindle on, opening the browser and downloading the guide.
2) Browsing the guide (displaying the different sections, the TOC etc...), using the Kindle search to find a book.
3) Downloading and opening a book.
4) Updating the guide.

Most people are convinced that the only way you can use a Kindle is to pay for books on the Kindle store, or pay for a conversion through the e-mail service. This would be a great way to showcase that the Kindle can also access thousands of free books as easily as on the Kindle store.

I'm working on RSS feeds in Mobipocket. I've included a first sample (started working on this today). Should be ready this month along with a guide that will allow Kindle users to update those feeds and download them to their Kindle whenever they want.

I won't be able to do the push feature like on the Kindle, but it should be fairly easy to use anyway (similar to the Kindle download guide).

Are the blog subscriptions DRM protected on the Kindle ? If they're DRM-free I'd appreciate if someone could send me an example. Otherwise a few screenshots would be useful.

I'm working on the template for RSS feeds right now, compared to the first example, I'll add a table of contents and links at the beginning of each story to skip to the next or previous story.