Comments on: The Economist, and, The Kindle: Take 2

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:12:14 +0000

Nic :@ Henao I don’t know of anything that works on arm currently (mobigen or KindleGen). Might be a good opportunity to open a suggestion with Kindle’s support.

Unfortunately Calibre is the only program I've found that generates .mobi files on ARM, which is a shame because Calibre really stresses it. I've been using Calibre on a Pogoplug running Debian and as long as you give it a fair amount of time to work it'll absolutely feed a Kindle.

By: Nic

Nic — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:25:20 +0000

Thanks for letting me know. There was a small change.
Update at http://nicj.net/files/economist_to_kindle.phps

By: koko

koko — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:02:01 +0000

@ Nic Looks like the design was changed. economist.html only got mbp:pagebreaks and not article contents

By: G

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:13:08 +0000

Have they changed the URL format again? Not getting any content in my downloads since last week.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:25:36 +0000

Hi Ian,

Today I updated the version of the script I’m hosting here:
http://nicj.net/files/economist_to_kindle.phps

It’s based off of CrossCode’s updates, but disables part of the script (NCX TOC generation) that I can’t get working with today’s economist.com and mobigen_linux.

Let me know if it works for you or not.

By: Ian Cremona

Ian Cremona — Sat, 07 May 2011 06:57:12 +0000

Hello,

First off, thanks for this script! I’m looking forward to getting it to work, I have set up everything as instructed but only seem to get the index page on my kindle

am I missing something?

Thanks again
Ian

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:19:41 +0000

@ Jman Are you talking about the new Folder features to group the Economist editions? I haven't had much time to work on it lately to add features. If anyone else is so inclined, that would be great!

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:18:32 +0000

@ Henao I don't know of anything that works on arm currently (mobigen or KindleGen). Might be a good opportunity to open a suggestion with Kindle's support.

By: Henao

Henao — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:15:41 +0000

This script is great and beats the bloat of calibre. I am able to run it on my nslu2 (arm) with debian, but no luck with mobigen. “unable to execute binary file”. Any idea or alternatives that work with arm?

By: Jman

Jman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:13:34 +0000

Thanks to all the contributors for this great script. Could you be so kind as to provide an update that enables the magazine to be browsed using kindle 3.1 firmware?