Not So FAQs » e-books http://www.notsofaqs.com Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:57:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Fixing the Book Title on Kindle E-Books http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/26#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/26#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:36:13 +0000 Helphand http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/26  

Mobi2mobi can handle Kindle AZW files and can change some of the metadata in DRMed Kindle books. You can obtain mobi2mobi in the Mobiperl package available from https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl/wiki

Use the following mobi2mobi command to change the Kindle display title for your DRMed Kindle books:

mobi2mobi --output [output filename] --exthtype updatedtitle --exthdata "[Corrected Title]" [original AZW filename]

 

 

 

 

 

]]> http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/26/feed 1 Converting e-books to Kindle Format http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/24#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/24#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:24:36 +0000 Helphand http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/24 A great source of e-book conversion utilities can be found at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion. There you will find various commercial, opensource and freeware programs that can handle file formats like LRF, CHM, LIT, HTML, PDF, RTF, PDB and DOC and convert them to formats that the Kindle can handle.

I’ve used the opensource Calibre EBook Management Software and can recommend it without hesitation. It’s available for Windows, Linux & the Apple  OS X platforms.

Amazon Kindle File Formats

  • AZW
  • TXT
  • MOBI
  • PRC

Note that Amazon offers its conversion via email service for the following file formats;

  • Word DOC
  • HTML
  • JPEG
  • TXT
  • GIF
  • PNG
  • BMP
  • PDF (experimental, results vary)

Software like earlier mentioned Calibre can handle additional formats, such as;

  • CBZ
  • CBR
  • CBC
  • CHM
  • EPUB
  • FB2
  • LIT
  • LRF
  • ODT
  • PDB
  • PML
  • RB
  • RTF
  • SNB
  • TCR

 

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]]> http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/20/feed 0 Sources of E-Books for the Amazon Kindle http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/14#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/14#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:19:03 +0000 Helphand http://www.notsofaqs.com/archives/14 Here are some great sources of e-books for the Amazon Kindle:

Free E-Books

Project Gutenberg
WOWIO
Pocket Fiction
Baen Free Library

E-Books (Commercial)

Baen
Mobipocket

E-Books (Paid Registration Required)

World Library

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