This post is for Kindle and Cybook users

[amalthia]

for a long time Sony users were able to use the program Calibre to manage our ebook library, and convert LIT, Mobi, html, rtf/word documents into LRF or Epub. It's a GREAT program. I use it all the time.

Now Kindle and Cybook users can use Calibre too. I checked the changelog for the newest version. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Changelog and it appears that they've added Kindle and Cybook detection and the ability to convert files to mobi. (I'm sure the first version will probably have bugs but what I'm going to test tonight is batch convert and see if I can make mulitple mobipocket files)

I'm rather excited about this development. :)

Comments

comics

[mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com]

I looked into the comic2lrf and I have very good eyesight and I can read the comics and they do look good. However sometimes the text is too small, After hassling kovid about lrf and epub. I discovered that the rendering engine does the right thing for landscape mode pdfs ( eg you can get more pixels in ). So I did the work for comic2pdf which i think you can guess what it does....

( It requires reportlabs which kovid's not going to bundle until verison .5 which is going to be in the next month or so ), but it does work :)

I have got a version yet to be integrated which will take a directory and generae a pdf with table of contents where each directory is a sub table of contents and each file is a table of contents entry, its very sweet I just need to do the merge back in with the main code.

Re: comics

[amalthia]

Okay I'm really looking forward to seeing this when it's merged. :) It's funny you'd think they'd market e-ink devices to manga/anime/comic fans but they haven't really. It's the right screen size...and if people who are already working full time can figure this stuff out on their free time imagine what someone could accomplish if they worked on this full time...okay I take that back they'd probably bring out something like Vista...