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Old 05-24-2012, 11:02 PM   #136
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Conversion program for .doc files to Kindle format

Someone told me there was a program I could download to my PC that would convert my MS Word .doc files to Kindle format. If such exists, what is it and where can I get it? (I really need a program where I can batch convert, i. e., convert a lot of files at one time since I have hundreds of .doc files).

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Old 05-25-2012, 05:19 AM   #137
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Someone told me there was a program I could download to my PC that would convert my MS Word .doc files to Kindle format. If such exists, what is it and where can I get it? (I really need a program where I can batch convert, i. e., convert a lot of files at one time since I have hundreds of .doc files).

Thanks in advance.
Have you looked at the best product available - Calibre? It will convert almost anything to Kindle .mobi format. You can copy en mass by selecting all the documents you want. and then similarly select all the documents you want converted and copied to you device in one go.

There is a sub-forum on MR dedicated to Calibre.

http://calibre-ebook.com/
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Old 05-25-2012, 05:07 PM   #138
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Have you looked at the best product available - Calibre? It will convert almost anything to Kindle .mobi format. ...
I think that Jesse Vincent ported calibre to run on a Kindle 2, didn't he? I think that it used a loop-mount filesystem, as I recall. It may need some work to run it on newer kindles.

EDIT: "Savory allows you to read .epub and .pdf files on your Kindle. It does this by converting these documents to Mobipocket format ebooks using Calibre."
http://blog.fsck.com/2009/04/savory.html

Unless there have been updates to the version of calibre that he ported, it may not have .DOC file support (but you could add it while adding touchscreen support ).

If this got updated, we would not need to be tied to a host PC to convert our documents.

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Old 07-27-2012, 06:42 PM   #139
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http://kindleimageconverter.com/

A simple tool that lets you convert any image into Kindle screensaver format and has an option of adding "Slide and release to wake" label.
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Quick Readable US Weather Forecasts

My August 2011 weather tip began failing in June 2012, because the National Weather Service changed the link mobile.weather.gov to -- and I just figured this out tonight -- cell.weather.gov. So, for classic eInk-friendly US weather forcasts, we now can:

1. Navigate to cell.weather.gov, via Robin Gardner's readingthenet.com, by entering this url:

tinyurl.com/cbtjg3n

2. Enter your zip code in the first entry block and click on Go.

3. Navigate down to, and click on:

Detailed 7-day Forecast

The rest is for the benefit of newbies:

4. When the forecast is returned, press Menu and then save with "Bookmark this Page."

5. To give a clearly understandable bookmark name, press Menu again to go to Bookmarks.

6. To get to your new bookmark, you may have to go down one page, as in a book.

7. When your new and ill-named bookmark is underlined, press the right side of the five-way.

8. Press the center of the five-way and type in "My Home Town Weather" or similar.
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Old 09-06-2012, 09:20 PM   #141
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Fast-Loading News for the Experimental Browser

With today's announcement of the Kindle Paperwhite 3G with "experimental WebKit-based browser," I see a fine future for this thread.

These may not be links that every Kindle owner should have. But if you are looking for eInk-friendly international news that loads quickly, with an easy to read font (thank you again, Robin Gardner), this may be your post.

For each link, first I give the full url so you can see what it is, then the shortened version that's easier to type:


Ghana Web:
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...aweb.com%2Fwap
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

The Age (Melbourne Australia):
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=....theage.com.au
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

Japan Broadcasting Corporation:
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=....jp%2Fdaily%2F
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

Swaminomics:
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...waminomics.org
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

The Times of India:
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...mesofindia.com
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

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Old 09-10-2012, 09:05 PM   #142
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More finds, mostly brought to my attention by wapreview.com. This time I am first going to give the raw small-font site, before giving the larger fonts processed by readingthenet.org:

Slate Web Magazine
http://mobile.slate.com/
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...e.slate.com%2F
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

Daily Nation (Kenya)
http://mobile.nation.co.ke/
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...ation.co.ke%2F
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

New Zealand Herald
http://mobile.nzherald.co.nz/
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...erald.co.nz%2F
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

This next one is a bit too partisan in its content, but I include as it has some good essays, and is a superior technical example of a site that's better on the Kindle Keyboard than most other platforms:

City Journal
http://www.city-journal.org/mobile/index.php
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...le%2Findex.php
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

I only have two links for the last one as I can't get it working with small fonts, even though there must be a way. Whenever the Euro is in crisis (and when isn't it?), go to:

Spiegel (Germany)
http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...l.de%2Fenglish
[Shortened URL deleted - MODERATOR]

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Old 09-11-2012, 08:31 AM   #143
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I found a useful trick that the Kindle’s browser has. If you browse to a website with a lot of articles (such as nytimes.com) you can use the “Article Mode” to read the article without any of the other distractions on the web site.
First, browse to the web site of your choice. Then use the Enter key to zoom into the section of the page which has the article you want to read. Once you have zoomed in select the article. Once the article has opened select Menu and select Article Mode. This will reformat the article into a book format, allowing you to read through it as though it were another book on the Kindle.
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Old 09-12-2012, 01:20 PM   #144
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that was some very nice collections of the links..
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Old 11-14-2012, 07:03 PM   #145
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Can you sideload PDF files to a kindle, and will they work good?
Thank you very much.
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Old 11-15-2012, 08:42 AM   #146
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Yes you can, and "It Depends". For best result run them through the KindlePDF Converter/Optimiser, which is somewhere on these boards. If I can find the link I'll come back and post it

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Here you are:-

http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/ . Drag your PDF onto the .exe file and hit enter to see how it looks. Sometimes you need to do a bit of manual tweaking to the parameters first.
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Old 12-16-2012, 06:35 PM   #147
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My wife has a Kindle Fire and we have purchased 2 Kindle Fire HD's for kids Christmas this year. We have a lot of DVD's that we would like to convert for watching on trips. There seem to be numerous converters. Which do you recommend? Need something easy for non-techie persons. Thanks
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Old 12-16-2012, 07:46 PM   #148
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Welcome to a new board.

However, as indicated by the name MobileRead, this board is primarily about reading on a mobile computing device. From that standpoint, putting a DVD on the Kindle could be seen as distracting from reading (although a lot of people on this board do it).

Also, I don't know what country you are from, and what you are proposing to do may not be legal everywhere.

Additionally, your post doesn't fit in with the thread title, but since you are new here I don't want to push that too hard.

Maybe, not being a moderator, I shouldn't be posting like this. It's just that this is my favorite thread, and I've love to see news here of new serious Kindle-friendly (especially eInk-Kindle-friendly) links.
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Have you looked at the best product available - Calibre? It will convert almost anything to Kindle .mobi format. You can copy en mass by selecting all the documents you want. and then similarly select all the documents you want converted and copied to you device in one go.

There is a sub-forum on MR dedicated to Calibre.

http://calibre-ebook.com/
I just joined the forum and was looking to upload PDF on the kindle, are you saying that we need to convert all the files to .mobi ? That would be a huge letdown for me...

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