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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
Text editing / shell access on a Kindle 3 #Some possible alternate titles for this post:
- Editing text on a Kindle 3
- Terminal / console access on a Kindle 3
- Ubuntu Linux on your Kindle 3
- K3 SSH client
The Kindle 3's WebKit browser allows access to a host of web-based text editors (MyTextFile, vian, etc) and consoles (Ajaxterm, Anyterm, Web Console, shellinabox, etc).
Why bother? Because reading electronic text on an e-ink screen is far more pleasant than on any other device (including the Pixel Qi, which, however, is a great LCD for outdoor use).
After installing shellinabox on an Ubuntu Linux VM, shell access from the Kindle couldn't be simpler:
Since the Kindle keyboard lacks Esc and Ctrl, stick with simple text editing tools like cat and ed/ex instead of nano and vi (though there are ways to avoid the escape key in vi, including Alt shortcuts like Alt+M to jump to middle of page and switch to command mode):
ed/ex resources:
- ed Wikipedia entry
- A few key ed commands explained in brief
- Ed Cheat Sheet
- ed man page
- Text Editing with ed
- Fast editing examples using cat, ed, and sed
- ex Wikipedia entry
- ex detailed guide
- Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly's excellent (and free) Unix Text Processing has a very detailed section on ex beginning on page 178.
Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
...
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
/eink | Sep 30, 2010
Fix your Kindle's tiny fonts #Kindle Optimizer - Digital imaging veteran fixes fonts for Amazon: Kindle 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 files | Kindle 2.3 files
/eink | Mar 31, 2010
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