Texinfo 7.0 released

Posted Nov 10, 2022 8:44 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Texinfo 7.0 released by donbarry
Parent article: Texinfo 7.0 released

That said, it boggles me that anyone would consider for use a system in which a mother ship must be consulted and their processing contributed for you to move a file of your own from one of your devices to another.

If you connect a Kindle to a Linux machine via USB it becomes, in effect, an external flash drive, so you can copy stuff (including documents) back and forth in the usual way without having to involve Amazon's servers. Just saying.

Texinfo 7.0 released

Posted Nov 13, 2022 20:08 UTC (Sun) by jch (guest, #51929) [Link] (2 responses)

You'll first need to convert your ebooks to the proprietary AZW3 format. Calibre works fine. The procedure is:

apt install calibre
ebook-convert book.epub book.azw3
sudo mount /dev/sdb ~/mnt
cp book.azw3 ~/mnt/documents/
sudo eject /dev/sdb

This works even with an unregistered Kindle.

Texinfo 7.0 released

Posted Nov 17, 2022 9:35 UTC (Thu) by Moarc (guest, #137864) [Link] (1 responses)

AFAIK, that's unnecessary. Kindles have always supported Mobipocket files and even plaintext, and recently they've implemented the far more common EPUB. (unless I'm missing something crucial and it doesn't work as well as AZW)

Texinfo 7.0 released

Posted Nov 22, 2022 17:18 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

They only "implemented" it by having Amazon's servers convert your epub to AZW3, apparently using the binary-only kindlegen tool they *used* to make available on Linux but long ago stopped providing. Using USB transfer (or HTTP transfer via the built-in web browser) requires you to convert it first. (Of course, thanks to Calibre, this is trivial to do, and probably preferable anyway because you have much more control over the conversion.)

I use my Kindle and love it: as a reading device it is without peer... but oh my god do I ever wish it wasn't so damn proprietary (and didn't have so many stupid bugs, many unfixed for a decade, sometimes even affecting things as simple as turning the page).