Transfer 4x6 Cards to Kindle Paperwhite

b0blee · 09-22-2015, 02:01 AM

I'm a musician who keeps his lyrics and chord charts on 4x6 cards in portrait orientation. I just bought a Kindle Paperwhite in hopes that I can use it on my mic stand instead of dealing with my stacks of cards. Any suggestions on how I should approach importing and organizing my cards? Half of them are already on my computer (a Mac) in OpenOffice, and are easily exported to PDF. The rest are handwritten and could be scanned. I have about 80 cards to import.

rem736 · 09-22-2015, 10:45 AM

i believe that kindle supports pdf natively. so you can just connect the kindle to your computer and transfer the pdf using the usb cable.

b0blee · 09-22-2015, 12:07 PM

How about organization? Is there any way that I can control the order of the cards, to easily switch from one song to the next on stage?

susan_cassidy · 09-22-2015, 03:17 PM

Other than keeping each card as a separate file, no. Make sure that your page size is set appropriately, if you do onvert to pdf. Otherwise, the print may be too small to see, and font size is not adjustable in pdfs.

ETA: you could maybe create a Table of Contents, to allow jumping to individual entries, but that is going to be a lot of work, unless you already have something like Song 1, Song 2, etc for the titles of each song.

dwig · 09-22-2015, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

... the print may be too small to see, and font size is not adjustable in pdfs.
...

This shouldn't be a problem when the PDFs come from scans of 4"x6" cards as the card is about the same size as the Kindle's screen. If the card is legible the screen will be. The "small print size" issue occurs only when the scanned original is significantly larger than the reader's screen.

dwig · 09-22-2015, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by b0blee

How about organization? Is there any way that I can control the order of the cards, to easily switch from one song to the next on stage?

One way is the scan or export the cards as 4x6" PDFs or as JPEGs and then use an application to assemble them into a single multipage PDF. The full Adobe Acrobat Pro can do this and there are others.

If all of the "cards" are 4x6" cards that you will scan, most modern scanning software (e.g. the EPSONscan software that comes with all EPSON scanners, ...) can build a multipage PDF while scanning. You simple scan the cards in the desired order.

The first method works better if you want to use the same cards, or various selections of them, to create several different PDFs each with a different order or different sub-selection of the collection. To do this using the second method requires that you rescan the cards which is a bit of a pain.

crane3 · 09-22-2015, 09:54 PM

For organization, you might want to look for an app similar to the windows app, "simplePDFmerger.zip", for the Mac; then just merge each 4x6 PDF in the sequence you want & get a PDF file with multiple pages (1 page per song).

Or check if you scanner has a tool that is able to do multiple scans & scan all the 4x6 cards into a single file. Or if you have the "later" scanner/printer/copier like the Brother HL-L2380DW that has software that does multiple scans into a single file.

b0blee · 09-23-2015, 10:39 AM

Good ideas.

The problem is compounded by the fact that set lists (the order of songs) tend to change from time to time. I think that multi-page PDFs managed on my computer is probably the way to go. Does the Kindle respect a PDF table of contents?

kleinjar · 09-23-2015, 12:05 PM

It is also possible to view simple jpeg files on the paperwhite I believe.

kleinjar · 09-23-2015, 12:17 PM

Here:

http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/ques...display-photos

This makes it easy to switch between images. One image per folder.

b0blee · 09-24-2015, 10:52 PM

I have not been able to get image files to work at all. None of the instructions mentioned above work on the current Kindle Paperwhite.

I have had success with single page 4x6 PDF files, though. I'm going to try creating multi-page PDFs with an index to see how the device responds.

09-22-2015, 02:01 AM	#1
b0blee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: northern California Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Transfer 4x6 Cards to Kindle Paperwhite I'm a musician who keeps his lyrics and chord charts on 4x6 cards in portrait orientation. I just bought a Kindle Paperwhite in hopes that I can use it on my mic stand instead of dealing with my stacks of cards. Any suggestions on how I should approach importing and organizing my cards? Half of them are already on my computer (a Mac) in OpenOffice, and are easily exported to PDF. The rest are handwritten and could be scanned. I have about 80 cards to import.

09-22-2015, 03:17 PM	#4
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Other than keeping each card as a separate file, no. Make sure that your page size is set appropriately, if you do onvert to pdf. Otherwise, the print may be too small to see, and font size is not adjustable in pdfs. ETA: you could maybe create a Table of Contents, to allow jumping to individual entries, but that is going to be a lot of work, unless you already have something like Song 1, Song 2, etc for the titles of each song. Last edited by susan_cassidy; 09-22-2015 at 03:20 PM.

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rem736 purpose priority passion Posts: 645 Karma: 9002000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: socal, usa Device: sony prs-350, b&n ngp, rM2, kindle scribe, boox poke5	i believe that kindle supports pdf natively. so you can just connect the kindle to your computer and transfer the pdf using the usb cable.

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b0blee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: northern California Device: Kindle Paperwhite	How about organization? Is there any way that I can control the order of the cards, to easily switch from one song to the next on stage?

09-22-2015, 09:54 PM	#7
crane3 Guru Posts: 608 Karma: 5007204 Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Calif Device: Fire hdx 8.9, Tab S2, Tab S5e, Aura ONE	For organization, you might want to look for an app similar to the windows app, "simplePDFmerger.zip", for the Mac; then just merge each 4x6 PDF in the sequence you want & get a PDF file with multiple pages (1 page per song). Or check if you scanner has a tool that is able to do multiple scans & scan all the 4x6 cards into a single file. Or if you have the "later" scanner/printer/copier like the Brother HL-L2380DW that has software that does multiple scans into a single file.

09-23-2015, 10:39 AM	#8
b0blee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: northern California Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Good ideas. The problem is compounded by the fact that set lists (the order of songs) tend to change from time to time. I think that multi-page PDFs managed on my computer is probably the way to go. Does the Kindle respect a PDF table of contents?

09-23-2015, 12:05 PM	#9
kleinjar Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 14210 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: none	It is also possible to view simple jpeg files on the paperwhite I believe.

09-23-2015, 12:17 PM	#10
kleinjar Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 14210 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: none	Here: http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/ques...display-photos This makes it easy to switch between images. One image per folder.

09-24-2015, 10:52 PM	#11
b0blee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: northern California Device: Kindle Paperwhite	I have not been able to get image files to work at all. None of the instructions mentioned above work on the current Kindle Paperwhite. I have had success with single page 4x6 PDF files, though. I'm going to try creating multi-page PDFs with an index to see how the device responds.

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