What follows is an overview of some of those solutions I’ll start with my preferred tool and then cover some of the alternatives. Thankfully, there are a number of niche tools that do exactly this. The better solution is to use tools that will take text-first content and convert it into a Kindle readable format. All Kindle e-readers include an “Experimental Browser”, but it’s notoriously bad and the page rendering is painfully slow (frankly it’s been labeled “experimental” as long as I can remember). The trick, of course, is transferring web-based content onto the Kindle. Moreover, using the Kindle also equips you with the device’s excellent annotation features which can be referenced, shared and even used with 3rd party tools like Readwise. Not only is it great for consuming ebooks, it’s also excellent for reading articles and long-form content found on the web (this is how I consume much of the content highlighted in my weekly link roundup and Substack newsletter). The Paperwhite’s singular focus (no apps, games, or video) makes it the ideal tool for distraction-free reading. The biggest advantage the Kindle Paperwhite has over the flashier, multi-purpose Kindle Fire is that it does one thing really well: it provides a top-notch reading experience in a variety of contexts-at home, on the go, upright, on your back, in the dark and in bright sunlight. Update: someone also requested the corresponding contents.html file.In case this is of use, I've put a pair of example files here: There is a hint in the Calibre source code that your top level navPoint should have class="periodical" and indeed that seems to cause kindlegen to make a book that's presented as a periodical.Īs well as discovering that previous breakthrough, oldmanuk worked out how to get the author names and summaries into the article list, which boils down to adding these elements under each article's navPoint: A summary of this article here Calibre is open source, so you could use that code to generate a periodical. I believe that was done by reverse engineering the binary format. (While I'm allowed to use the data from the Guardian API, I don't own it.)Ĭalibre generates documents in periodical format, but by directly generating the. Presumably you can get documentation from Amazon via registering with them to publish a newspaper, but that has to be approved by them, and in my case in my case I don't meet the terms and conditions. ncx files can be found here but these only explain how to generate books, not periodicals. I've updated the example files below to include a masthead image.ĭocumentation for the. Update: thanks to the tip from Marco in the comments, this works now, at least with Kindlegen 1.1 - later versions may not work. However, the results aren't quite perfect yet, namely in that I don't know how to add a masthead to the sections and articles page. However, I'll explain what I understand about this so far - we can now generate files that work on the Kindle as periodicals using kindlegen from a. I have been struggling with this as well - I hope someone else will come along to explain everything! I've been generating a daily edition of the Guardian for the Kindle, and haven't found any documentation about how to do this properly as a periodical.
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