Geek Answers Handbook

Are there any tools or projects for creating AZW files?

Kindle sparked a personal interest in reading my various content, but, as a rule, I am not satisfied with the available conversion tools and the lack of consistent documentation on the formats. My question is ...

Do you know about any resources, tools and / or projects for generating AZW files?

I found a lot of information about PRC / MOBI ( Mobipocket ) and its source Open Book , but there are certain navigation features that I have not found, how to duplicate. In particular, when you read a Kindle blog, you can skip entire posts by pressing the right or left button on a stick.

+6
kindle
source share
6 answers

I use Stanza to convert Microsoft doc files to AZW and Caliber to change metadata. I still have not figured out how to make a CBT that works, despite the fact that the documents for these tools advertise ways to accomplish this task. I also failed to include images.

When I figure out how to do this, I'll be back. (I was hoping someone else answered your question!)

+2
source share

You can create .mobi books using Kindlegen . It uses html to create a book with TOC support and skip chapter functionality.

+2
source share

I am working on a Ruby library to pack HTML files as MOBI documents.

http://github.com/josh/kindler

+1
source share

If you use kindlegen, you can create a .ncx file that describes the structure of your document and the table of contents. You include item in manifest :

 <item id="My_Table_of_Contents" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml" href="KUG.ncx"/>

and (this is the key bit, the discerning reader will understand what I forgot to do) include the table id in the toc attribute of the spine element:

 <spine toc="My_Table_of_Contents">

(The above snippets are taken from the Sample document included with kindegen. Specification links for these files can be found in Sample/Guide.opf .)

After that, kindlegen should include in its output something like:

 Info(prcgen): Building table of content URL: /path/to/KUG.ncx

If all of the above is successful, you should see the chapter labels on the Kindle navigation panel and use the left / right buttons to move from chapter to chapter.

+1
source share

If you have an ePub file using Caliber, just connect the Kindle to your computer; Caliber will detect your Kindle and send the converted .azw file directly to your Kindle. See this site for a detailed description of this.

If you don't have an ePub file, Caliber will help you convert your .doc or .odt file to .epub.

+1
source share

You definitely need to try Caliber . Convert Ebook to dozens of formats, many other features. I use it to convert documents to Kindle. Highly recommended.

0
source share

More articles:


All Articles