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Old 10-26-2010, 05:41 PM   #1
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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,

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Old 10-26-2010, 05:49 PM   #2
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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.
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Old 10-27-2010, 03:54 AM   #3
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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 ...
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This has been discussed endlessly before. Do a search and you will find severa threads on it.
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