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Kindle eBook Reader

Kindle is the popular eBook reader sold by amazon

http://www.amazon.com/kindle

A SDK is in limited beta phase: http://www.amazon.com/kdk

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How interoperable are the EPUB and MOBI formats?

I have a bunch of EPUB books that I have to convert to MOBI if I get a Kindle. I would like to know whether there will necessarily be any loss of detail (e.g. meta-data, layout info) during a conversion from EPUB to MOBI and vice versa, analogous to…
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Download data in background with iOS4

As per the latest update of Kindle V2.5, it has support of "continue downloading books while the app is in the background on iOS 4 devices". How is it possible to download content in background? As per the iOS multitasking documentation, only audio,…
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I want to build a web service that sends articles to my Kindle

Where do I start? Is there some sort of API - or something I can get access to that allows me to format articles and send them to my kindle? I would like to do this in Rails. Edit: For further clarity, I guess my real question is, how does…
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Unable to log in to Amazon using Python

I'm using Python 3 to write a script to log in to Amazon to grab my Kindle highlights. It is based on this article: https://blog.jverkamp.com/2015/07/02/scraping-kindle-highlights/ I am unable to successfully log in and instead get a message saying…
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How to programatically publish ebooks to Kindle, Sony Reader etc.?

I would like to use .NET platform to do this. I should be able to convert word documents, pdf files, assign a password and publish it to kindle, sony reader. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Extract info from mobi

I am creating simple app for ebooks handling. Extracting info from epub files is piece of cake, there are plenty of packages for getting info about author of book, title, cover, description etc. But how to extract this informations from mobi files?…
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Extracting information from a Google Calendar using Python

Summary: I'd like to use a Python script to automatically download events from a Google Calendar. Detail: I am making a Kindle based Heads-up display. The Kindle runs a python script every hour, and downloads weather and event information from the…
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Technologies and standards in a Kindle

I'm using the Kindle as an example of an embedded system to illustrate some points I'm making in a paper. Since I'm not an expert in all the technologies used, can those aware of them point them out. For example: the GUI is programmed in embedded…
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statically sized pages in Kindle Books

I'm writing a book with lots of diagrams and very little text. I've tried uploading a PDF, but it appears that Kindle tries to OCR my PDF and then resize it automatically to the device it's on. Using the Kindle Developer Kit, is it possible to do…
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Are there libraries or packages for creating .mobi files in a Java/Linux environment?

I'm trying to find a solution that offers either a Java api for writing .mobi files for sending to a Kindle, or something that's scriptable given a Linux environment. I have text data in a MySQL database that I want to offer as Kindle-friendly…
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QtEmbedded (for Kindle!): How are the device plugins supposed to get feedback from the app?

I'm not having an easy time making a workable mouse pointer interface on the Kindle with Qt (unofficial, of course). The fiveway joystick can't track more than one direction at a time (no diagonal moves), and the screen is too slow to update for…
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Have Amazon Appstore webapp exit on suspend?

We have an app as part of the Amazon Appstore webapp program, which allows web-apps to natively appear in their Appstore on e.g. Kindle Fire HDX. Our problem: The app doesn't exit and clear when closed, it's eternally stored in some persistent…
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NoClassDefFoundError Amazon ADM integration on kindle

I'm trying the Amazon Device Messaging API I added the jar file using the import as suggested by Amazon. When I deploy onto the device, I get an error, 06-03 16:24:13.680: E/AndroidRuntime(11038): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:…
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Reducing flicker in Kindle/e-ink web content?

Do guidelines exist for writing web applications that will be viewed on the Kindle Paperwhite or other e-ink based devices? I'm especially looking for techniques to reduce flicker when updating images.
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Automatically create chapter breaks and titles from plain text file?

I have a big file that is separated into categories with an underscore beneath each category name. The file is constantly changing and there are 80 categories. It is a plain text file. I would like to make it so that each category name is a separate…
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