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13.3" E Ink tablet #
Sony is planning to release an A4-sized E Ink tablet later this year using E Ink's Mobius display. Until then, the Kindle DX makes a good computer monitor. (Note to hardware manufacturers: still waiting for a plug-and-play E Ink monitor for text-intensive tasks and perhaps even video/animation).

/eink | May 19, 2013

Rugged E Ink Android tablet for the backcountry #
Earl is an E Ink tablet built for outdoor use:

Android 4.1
Flexible 6" E-ink screen (1024x768)
Sunlight viewable with lunar lantern mode
Glove friendly IR touchscreen
Waterproof shell
Kickstand
Solar (or USB) charging
i.MX 6 DualLite 1GHz Cortex A9
1GB ram
16GB memory + microSD
WiFi b/g/n
BT 4.0
ANT+
NFC
FRS/GMRS/MURS
GPS + GLONASS
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Temperature
Barometer
Humidity
Anemometer
AM/FM/SW/LW
IR blaster
20+ hour battery
20" USB lanyard
303 grams (10.8 oz)
183mm x 121mm x 15mm (7.2" x 4.75" x 0.6")

/eink | May 11, 2013

E Ink computer monitor #
Still waiting for an E Ink monitor? Use your Kindle DX as a second display.

Additional keywords for the bleary-eyed:

E-Ink computer screen
Kindle external keyboard
E Ink monitor for computer
E Ink word processor
E Ink display for writing
Kindle as computer monitor
Writing on Kindle
e-paper
An external keyboard for your Kindle

/eink | Apr 02, 2012

Combine multiple HTML files into a single PRC ebook #
and generate a table of contents automatically with Mobipocket Creator. Additional keywords: batch, concatenate, convert, HTML2PRC, Kindle.

/eink | Dec 03, 2011

Optimizing PDFs for E Ink displays #

briss crops PDFs via a simple page stack view.
cut2col "is a utility for converting 2-column to 1-column pdf documents. This is done by cutting each page into 4 pieces and merging them together so that they can be viewed on a tiny e-book reader."
K2pdfopt "optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones. It works well on multi-column PDF/DJVU files."
Mangle optimizes, sorts, and organizes images for the Kindle. Article
papercrop optimizes PDF documents for ebook readers.
PDFCropper "is a program designed for preparing normal sized PDFs (A4, B4, Letter, etc.) to be readable on relatively small devices..."
PDFRead converts "PDF and DJVU documents for reading on eBook devices. It does this by creating an image out of each page, enhancing the image and then collating the images in a device-specific format."
PDF Scissors crops PDFs for ebook readers like the Kindle.
See also Cropping PDFs from last year.

Edit PDF metadata, bookmarks, page labels and more with BeCyPDFMetaEdit.
jPDF Tweak is a veritable Swiss Army knife for PDF files, allowing you to make printable booklets, add bookmarks and effects, change metadata, and perform a slew of additional functions like: combine, watermark, rotate, encrypt, and sign.
Extract images from PDFs with pdfimages for Linux, PDF-Images for OS X, or Some PDF Images Extract for Windows. Learn how images are stored in PDF files.

/eink | Oct 31, 2011

VNC client for Kindle #
KindleVNC allows not only remote viewing but also remote control of your computer running a VNC server. Very polished and well-thought-out. Tested with OS X's standard VNC server ("Screen Sharing" on port 5900). (via MobileRead)

/eink | Oct 02, 2011

Newly added to the Docs section #
Installing Luigi Rizzo's Standalone Kindle Terminal

/eink | Feb 25, 2011

Kindle Terminal #
Luigi Rizzo has crafted a standalone Kindle terminal in C that allows you to run a shell from the Kindle's keyboard and screen. No need to rely on web-based terminals any more. (via Hacker News)

UPDATE: Installing Luigi Rizzo's Standalone Kindle Terminal

/eink | Dec 11, 2010

Random Kindle notes #

Instapaper is a must
If you are using a terminal, make lynx readable by losing the black background: simply comment out the two lines below from /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.lss
normal: normal: lightgray:black default: normal: white:black
Google Reader's mobile site defaults to opening links in a new window, which the Kindle does not support. Fix this by heading to Feeds > Settings and uncheck "Open links in a new window". (Note to Jeff: instead of Web Browser could not open this link because opening multiple windows is not supported, why not just ignore the target option and open the link in the same window?)

/eink | Oct 17, 2010

Batch create Kindle collections from document folders #
MobileRead user "collection" created a Python script (KindleCollections.py AKA KindleForResearch.py

) to turn directories of PDFs into collections. It worked equally well for a bunch of TXT files (actually HTML files renamed due to Kindle restrictions) by simply replacing every occurrence of "pdf" with "txt" in the script.

/eink | Oct 17, 2010

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