Saturday, February 26, 2011

Technical Books and Kindle

I very much enjoy my new Kindle. I had no idea that I would get addicted to this new toy. From the time I got the Kindle, I have already read 4 books.

I uploaded several of my technical PDF books. These books were from Manning, Apress, O'Reilly. However, none of these render properly on the Kindle.

It is hard to flip the pages, the pages don't display correctly, the diagrams also don't show up properly, and code samples are even bad.

So, was wondering how you all use your Kindle to read technical books? Any tips or tricks would really be help.

10 comments:

  1. ShiFebruary 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM

    Hi Meera,
    Try 'calibre' tool, it converts a given document to kindle format. Enjoy reading technical PDF's in kindle.

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  2. ShiFebruary 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Hi Meera,

    Try 'calibre' tool, its converts a given document to kindle format.

    Enjoy reading your technical PDF's on kindle.

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  3. Meera SubbaraoFebruary 27, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    Thanks so much for sharing this info. I will try it right now.

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  4. Meera SubbaraoFebruary 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM

    Tried it Shi. The pages are completely empty. I will try another book.

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  5. ShiFebruary 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    Hope you tried with output format : 'MOBI'.

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  6. Meera SubbaraoFebruary 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    Yep, tried that as well. I get the exception "calibre, version 0.7.47
    WARNING: Could not save some books: Could not save some books, Click the show details button to see which ones.


    Requested formats not available

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  7. AnonymousAugust 12, 2011 at 10:57 PM

    you can try calibre 0.8.xx. I don't like the font formatting but the images seem to be ok.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    Calibre 0.8.19 is broken. For any export format (epub, mobi, ...) gives the same error: "Requested formats not available".

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  9. AnonymousDecember 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    yes, this is an old post, but I thought I think I have the solution. I was getting the same error because I was using the save single format to disk option. I realized I actually have to use the `covert books` button option (pick your input and output) and it will add a epub format for that book. Then you use the save. You can also do mass coverts, but I think you might have to do it for each format, because you have to pick an input (that is if you have more than one type of input format e.g. pdf, chm, mobi, etc.

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  10. HarshaFebruary 16, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    i wish could have read your post earlier.. i have bought one and i am searching for answers now

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