Entries Tagged as 'Document Conversion'

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The Pragmatic Programmers Books are now available for Kindle

If you’re a Kindle owner, and you also happen to be a programmer or technical enthusiast, you’re going to be excited to know that The Pragmatic Programmers have released many of their eBook versions of their print releases in .MOBI format, which the Kindle and Kindle 2 will very happily understand. The eBooks look great [...]

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Excellent List of Kindle 2 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

iReaderReview has put up an excellent collection of tips, tricks, and hacks for the Kindle 2. Rather than attempt to build my own list, go check out their posting. Excellent work guys!

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Kindle 2 is hackable!

Two brilliant guys have hacked the Kindle and Kindle 2. The Kindle was first hacked a long, long time ago (December 2007) by Igor. He managed to use the Linux sources that Amazon is required to publish in order to figure out how things are setup in the firmware. Then he built a faux JTAG [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Is Amazon’s automated document conversion service overloaded?

Yesterday, before I had the Kindle 2 in my hand, I set up my Kindle 2 in the “Manage Your Kindle” section in my Amazon account. I added some authorized email addresses so that I could email documents directly to the Kindle (with Amazon automatically converting them to the Amazon format of .AZW). Obviously I [...]