The content page generated by calibre is at the end of the document. rw-r–r– 1 steve steve 1.5M 13:20 emacs.mobi Copy to KindleĬopy the book to your Kindle. It takes a few minutes to convert: ebook-convert emacs.html emacs.mobi –linearize-tables –title “The Emacs Editor” –authors gnu.org –comments “The Emacs Editor Kindle book generated from gnu.org single page HTML file.” To fix this, specify linearize-tables option and the table will be converted to regular text.Ĭonvert the emacs.html file into a mobi file and turn the tables into regular text. You cannot select any of the links so it is pretty useless. If you use the defaults for conversion, the index at the beginning of the book is one big table that runs for many pages. Note: There are many options you can specify when converting from html to mobi. If you don’t have calibre, you can install it with: You use calibre to convert the html file to a book (mobi file). Just point the converter at the content.html file. From all these files you can create an ebook for your Kindle. Note: Python documentation comes in a zip file of many HTML files. rw-r–r– 1 steve steve 3.3M 11:55 emacs.html Wget software/ emacs/ manual/ html_mono/ emacs.html Here are the steps in detail for Ubuntu.Įmacs provides a single page HTML file of all the documentation. These steps can be done on the Windows and Macintosh platforms as well as Ubuntu. Here I show how to load the emacs manual. I’ve loaded my Kindle with all the Python documentation as well as the emacs documentation. It is a great device for reading manuals. It just a matter of converting to the right format for your Kindle. There is a lot of free content you can load onto your Kindle.
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