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eschwartz · 12-19-2015, 09:53 PM

There is no need for people to come here poo-pooing the mere idea that someone would want to do this.

@Dark-Show,
I would seriously think about utilizing calibre's conversion, and possibly, recipes, infrastructure.
Again, there isn't a lot of open-source -->AZW3 conversion code around, and calibre is most of that, so why not reuse it? Otherwise, it should serve as documentation for re-implementing your own conversion code.

Also see our Wiki: MOBI or KindleUnpack
calibre's News recipes are pretty popular with some people -- I don't know how many would rather use your hack vs. calibre, but there is probably some call for on-device usage.

calibre's recipes are also an easy way to get well-written support for many websites out-of-the-box. You could fallback on some sort of generic screen-scraping for anything else.

It's not reasonable to ask people to install third-party ARM builds of all of calibre

but some kind of stripped-down lightweight alternative would definitely be interesting.

calibre is all GPLv3.

@shamanNS,
Two words. "configuration file"
Thank you for your concern.

12-19-2015, 09:53 PM	#27
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	There is no need for people to come here poo-pooing the mere idea that someone would want to do this. @Dark-Show, I would seriously think about utilizing calibre's conversion, and possibly, recipes, infrastructure. Again, there isn't a lot of open-source -->AZW3 conversion code around, and calibre is most of that, so why not reuse it? Otherwise, it should serve as documentation for re-implementing your own conversion code. Also see our Wiki: MOBI or KindleUnpack calibre's News recipes are pretty popular with some people -- I don't know how many would rather use your hack vs. calibre, but there is probably some call for on-device usage. calibre's recipes are also an easy way to get well-written support for many websites out-of-the-box. You could fallback on some sort of generic screen-scraping for anything else. It's not reasonable to ask people to install third-party ARM builds of all of calibre but some kind of stripped-down lightweight alternative would definitely be interesting. calibre is all GPLv3. @shamanNS, Two words. "configuration file" Thank you for your concern. Last edited by eschwartz; 12-19-2015 at 10:00 PM.