Calibre Manual and Wiki as Ebook?

oecherprinte · 10-26-2010, 05:41 PM

Hi,

since I know that the developer is reading this forum:

Could you provide the calibre manual and the wiki pages about recipe development as kindle ebooks? I have seen the manual in epub format but
conversion to mobi takes forever (does not seem to finish).

Wouldn't it make sense to publish the manuals of an ebook management tool as an ebook? :-)

or even better: add it to the installation so it appears as a default book in the calible list ...

Thanks,

Jens

kovidgoyal · 10-26-2010, 05:49 PM

I dont provide it as MOBI because MOBI is such a limited format that trying to write a sophisticated document like a User Manual in MOBI is pointless.

In other words, a conversion of the User Manual to MOBI would look like crap. And I do not want to provide official crap.

I'm afraid that if you have a Kindle you are stuck reading only simple text based books like novels.

oecherprinte · 10-27-2010, 03:54 AM

Really? What's the advantage of epub over mobi? I finally had the conversion done and I do not think that it looks like "crap"? It just misses the capability of jumping in between chapters with the cursor keys ...

kovidgoyal · 10-27-2010, 09:41 AM

This has been discussed endlessly before. Do a search and you will find severa threads on it.

10-26-2010, 05:41 PM	#1
oecherprinte Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle3 3G, Kindle Paperwhite 2	Calibre Manual and Wiki as Ebook? Hi, since I know that the developer is reading this forum: Could you provide the calibre manual and the wiki pages about recipe development as kindle ebooks? I have seen the manual in epub format but conversion to mobi takes forever (does not seem to finish). Wouldn't it make sense to publish the manuals of an ebook management tool as an ebook? :-) or even better: add it to the installation so it appears as a default book in the calible list ... Thanks, Jens

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10-26-2010, 05:49 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,259 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I dont provide it as MOBI because MOBI is such a limited format that trying to write a sophisticated document like a User Manual in MOBI is pointless. In other words, a conversion of the User Manual to MOBI would look like crap. And I do not want to provide official crap. I'm afraid that if you have a Kindle you are stuck reading only simple text based books like novels.

10-27-2010, 03:54 AM	#3
oecherprinte Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle3 3G, Kindle Paperwhite 2	Really? What's the advantage of epub over mobi? I finally had the conversion done and I do not think that it looks like "crap"? It just misses the capability of jumping in between chapters with the cursor keys ...

10-27-2010, 09:41 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,259 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	This has been discussed endlessly before. Do a search and you will find severa threads on it.

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