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Ebooks come in approximately 4,312 formats, of which approximately 4,300 are considered obsolete by most people who deal with ebooks today.
This guide is meant to take you step-by-step through the creation of a complete Standard Ebook. While it might seem a little long, most of the text is a description of how to use various automated scripts. It can take just an hour or two for an experienced producer to produce a draft ebook for proofreading (depending on the complexity of the ebook, of course).
Our toolset is GNU/Linux-based, and producing an ebook from scratch currently requires working knowledge of the epub file format and of Unix-like systems like Mac or Linux.
Our toolset doesn’t yet work natively on Windows, but there are many ways to run Linux from within Windows, including one that is directly supported by Microsoft themselves.
Calibre is brilliant, but many of its features fly under the radar. Here are the best Calibre features to help you manage your ebook collection.
.Software Jailbreak for Kindle PW2, PW3(B), PW3W, KT2, KT3(B), KT3W, KV, and KOA
The JailBreak, while fairly unintrusive itself, opens the door to pretty much everything you'll find on this forum .
As for USBNetwork, besides bundling a couple of useful tools, it will grant you remote shell access to your Kindle, be it over USB or WiFi.
Abstract: The purpose of this page is to bring together, in a concise way, much of the information found in the Kindle Developer's Corner concerning the Kindle Touch (KT) And Kindle Paperwhite (PW), regarding topics such as jailbreaks, modifications, and how to develop for the device.
While the first method is easy to follow, you may wish to contact customer service to remove the ads for you. Reasons you may wish to use this method include 1) because you’d rather not try to do it yourself, or 2) you would like to see if they will turn off ads for you for free.
Some people have reported that customer service may occasionally choose to waive the fee for removing special offers as a “one time exception” for you.
This Calibre plugin allows you to manage your Kindle collections, and, on select devices, margins and fonts.
Main Features
Works on the Kindle DX, 2, 3, and 4 non-touch; and in tandem with ixtab's Collections Manager on JailBroken Kindle Touch, PaperWhite, PaperWhite 2, Basic, Voyage, PaperWhite 3, Oasis, Basic 2, Oasis 2, PaperWhite 4 & Basic 3 devices
Collections Manager offers a much more flexible way than the built-in one to manage Kindle Touch and Kindle PaperWhite collections.
Stop organizing your ebooks like they’re just a tired pile of documents and start organizing them in style with Calibre—an open source ebook organizer that supports metadata, cover flow, format conversion, and more.
Whenever I open an .epub file in Calibre e-book viewer, the text is full-justified. I want to set left-justification as a permanent preference for all .epub files. How can I do that?
I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 Home Edition 64-bit, and the latest version of Calibre (I think), 5.14.
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: I submitted my question to the MobileRead forum's thread, Custom CSS Stylesheets for Calibre's Viewer, and received an answer from Kovid Goyal, himself (the creator of Calibre). The solution is to use a style sheet (as suggested by Christian__N, below) with this entry:
* { text-align: left !important; }
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51500
In the Ebook Viewer application, click on the Hammer [gear] icon (Preferences), then put the code in the "User stylesheet" edit box and click OK. Have an ebook open in the viewer for the full effect, before and after.
Send to Kindle for Google Chrome
Sending web content to Kindle has never been easier
Send news articles, blog posts and other web content to Kindle.
Send web content to Kindle in one step or preview before you send.
Select text from the web page and send it to Kindle.
Read anytime, everywhere on your Kindle devices and reading apps.
Choose to archive content in your Kindle Library, where you can re-download it conveniently at any time.
Send to Kindle for Chrome makes web articles easier to read – we send just the content you want and not the distractions.
Once you download and install, a Send to Kindle icon will appear on your Google Chrome browser.
You can download archived content from any Kindle device or free reading app for your iOS or Android device.
If your Kindle Paperwhite won’t turn on, a frozen screen is the most probable cause.
You can fix this yourself by following the steps below:
- Press and Hold the power button for 40 seconds then release.
- Press and Hold the power button again for 3-5 seconds to reboot the device.
- The device should now boot up and display the Kindle logo. //
If you happen to leave your Kindle for any extended period, the device’s battery may dip below its operating voltage necessary to run.
Your Kindle will display an exclamation mark when the battery charge gets critical. If it goes beyond this, you get a completely blank screen and the Kindle Paperwhite will look dead. //
If the battery is completely dead, the Kindle will need to pre-charge the battery at a much slower rate, also known as “trickle charge”, so not to overheat or damage the battery. This can take up to an hour to get to a safe voltage level before switching to a normal charge rate.
The biggest change that the update introduces is how the Kindle software is actually displayed, with the top-mounted toolbar removed and a large search bar included in its place.
At the bottom of the UI, too, are now just two buttons, which include one for 'Home' and one for the user's digital reading 'Library'. There's also now a central icon that allows the reader to jump to their most recently read book and, in what will be music to many Kindle owner's ears, the quick-settings menu is now easily accessed as a new arrow has been placed on the UI that points to it – the days of randomly tapping around the top of the screen trying to find it are gone! All these changes have been made to make it easier and more streamlined to navigate on Kindles. //
The latest Amazon Kindle update is version 5.13.7,
The below table has each device, its release year, the generation it was a part of, the short name, and serial number prefixes to help identify it.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.
Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.
Standard Ebooks aren’t just a beautiful addition to your digital library—they’re a high quality standard to build your own ebooks on.
Many people download free royalty free ebooks from Project Gutenberg. It is the largest site in the world for this type of content and offers downloads in EPUB and MOBI for Kindles. One of the best alternatives is Standard Ebooks who reformats ebooks from PG and edits them, adjusts the typesetting, add better cover art and metadata.
If you've got some Kindle books, you've likely heard that they come with Amazon's Kindle DRM, which locks your books into Kindle devices remove drm from kindle booksand kindle reading apps. But as a consumer, when we have already paid these files for money, why should we be stopped from reading them just because we didn't buy a Kindle but an iPad or a Kobo e-ink reader instead? This deeply hurts us. Yes?
So if you want to read Kindle books on non-Kindle devices or apps, the perfect solution is to remove the DRM. And in fact it's also the best way to protect your purchases, helps us read our own books more freely, backup or copy, print or share kindle books with friends.
But, how to? You may have wondered this problem for a long time. Don't worry this article will introduce you 3 ways to remove drm from Kindle books. From here you can liberate your kindle books best.
Method 1: Remove DRM from Kindle books with Calibre Plugin
Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 (and later) and KFX in calibre
The Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac programs use Amazon's KFX format for most books. Each book will appear in a separate subdirectory of the "My Kindle Content" folder with a file extension of ".azw". Unless additional steps are taken, these books will fail to convert in calibre with the error: "KFXError: This is an Amazon KFX book. It cannot be processed."
There are several methods for either avoiding or handling KFX format. The following descriptions apply both to Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac unless one is mentioned explicitly.
Method 1 - Revert to an older version of Kindle for PC/Mac
Older Kindle for PC/Mac version 1.17 can be installed to work around this problem for most users. //
Method 3 - Use an e-ink Kindle instead
If you have an e-ink Kindle device registered to your Amazon account you have the option of downloading books directly from Amazon instead of using Kindle for PC/Mac.
- From the Amazon website access "Account & Lists" -> "Manage Your Content and Devices".
- Find a book you want to import into calibre and press the "..." button in the "Actions" column for that book.
- In the menu that pops up choose "Download & transfer via USB". Then select the name of your registered kindle device in the drop down menu and press the "Download" button.
- Import the downloaded file into calibre using the same procedure that you would use for a file from Kindle for PC. You will need to select the proper folder containing the downloaded file. (This folder will be different from the "My Kindle Content" folder used by Kindle for PC.)
- Users of the DRM Tools should refer to Apprentice Alf's Blog or Apprentice Harper's GitHub for information on the configuration required to support books downloaded for an e-ink Kindle. //
Obtaining and verifying Kindle for PC/Mac software
Older versions of the Kindle PC/Mac software are no longer available directly from Amazon. You will need to search online for the proper file name and download it from a third party site. The file name to search for each version is listed below.
Important: After downloading you should verify the SHA-256 hash of the file in order to avoid malware. If the hash does not match, delete the downloaded file and try again from another site. Do not install a file that has an incorrect hash!
One way to verify a hash in Windows is to open a command window, change to the folder containing the downloaded program, and enter the command:
certutil -hashfile <filename> SHA256
version 1.17/1.17.1
filename: KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44170.exe
SHA-256: 14e0f0053f1276c0c7c446892dc170344f707fbfe99b695176 2c120144163200
https://archive.org/details/kindle-for-pc-1-17-44170 //
Disable Kindle for PC Auto Update
Starting in October 2020 Kindle for PC has become more agressive about updating itself, even if the option to automatically install updates is deselected. One method to block automatic updates is to locate the "updates" folder within your Kindle for PC installation and replace it with a file of the same name:
rmdir /s /q %LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle\updates
echo This file disables Kindle for PC downloads. > %LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle\updates
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The Open Book Project: An eBook Reader You Can Build Yourself
2 Feb 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel
An amateur hardware enthusiast wants to prove it’s possible for people to build their own ebook readers.
“As a society, we need an open source device for reading,” explains the project’s page on GitHub. “Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners’ interests are not always aligned with readers’.”
“The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves.”