Kindle upload-via-email plain text formatting

wirawan0 · 03-12-2012, 12:33 PM

I pleasantly found today that if we load a plain text file to our @free.kindle.com, when the file is opened on my kindle, it is lightly formatted! It correctly recognized bullet points, even some headings (printed in large bold font). Does anyone know of this feature? It seems like an ASCIIDOC or rst-like syntax that they use in the conversion.

I am specifically interested to know the formatting syntax that it uses.

Wirawan

susan_cassidy · 03-12-2012, 02:52 PM

All files that you email are converted to .mobi format, which is HTML-based. You were lucky. The last time that I sent a list, the bullet points were not correct. You can put a .txt file directly onto the Kindle, via USB, if you want.

Edited to add: unless you email a pdf file, without "convert" in the subject line. Then, the pdf file is just delivered as is.

03-12-2012, 12:33 PM	#1
wirawan0 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 14194 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kindle 3 Wifi	Kindle upload-via-email plain text formatting I pleasantly found today that if we load a plain text file to our @free.kindle.com, when the file is opened on my kindle, it is lightly formatted! It correctly recognized bullet points, even some headings (printed in large bold font). Does anyone know of this feature? It seems like an ASCIIDOC or rst-like syntax that they use in the conversion. I am specifically interested to know the formatting syntax that it uses. Wirawan

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03-12-2012, 02:52 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	All files that you email are converted to .mobi format, which is HTML-based. You were lucky. The last time that I sent a list, the bullet points were not correct. You can put a .txt file directly onto the Kindle, via USB, if you want. Edited to add: unless you email a pdf file, without "convert" in the subject line. Then, the pdf file is just delivered as is.

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