As a new person here and a new Kindle owner, I have yet to get my Kindle. While it has been sitting in our house for the last week, my wife -- refuses to give it to me more than three days before my birthday. The gall of it, I mean really[sic].
Be that as it may, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the Kindle, and more importantly, thinking about PDF's, formatting, and all that kind of goodness.
I've been a long time lover of the LaTex typesetting system, and after digging around in Google, I found some people who had been playing around with using LaTex to lay out text an save in a Kindle usable (so reflow wouldnt be an issue).
Returning from lunch, I found myself 3 hours from getting my Kindle, so I thought I would play around with using LaTex.
If anyone is home right now, and has their Kindle nearby (non-dx) and would like to download this PDF I made using the Project Gutenberg Moby Dick txt, I'd love to hear how it looks.
Click
here to download.
For those interested in the LaTex code I used, it's below. I'm planning on looking at this myself when I get home, but I'm feeling a bit impatient.
Code:
\documentclass[8pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[paperwidth=9cm, paperheight=12cm, top=1cm, left=1cm, right=1cm, bottom=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\frenchspacing
\sloppy
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\end{documnent}