Document Formats (was Book Recommendations)

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Document Formats (was Book Recommendations)

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Hello,
I have a Kindle DX, then I prefer the Kindle format than the PDFs. What I want to know is if there is any ebook for OS development on Kindle format(they are azw, mobi, prc).

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Nathan wrote: I have a Kindle DX, then I prefer the Kindle format than the PDFs.
Isn't it quite easy to convert one to the other?


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jal wrote:
Nathan wrote: I have a Kindle DX, then I prefer the Kindle format than the PDFs.
Isn't it quite easy to convert one to the other?

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It's the painful converting process I ever seen! When it gets converted, you have many(soo much!) formating errors, also Kindle doesn't support tables or topics(bullets). #-o

Tables need to be converted into images and the topics need to be converted into -'s.
The codes and these things that have anormal formattings(many tabs), loose them all.

Resuming, it's the worst converting tool I ever seen! :x
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From wikipedia, I get that your Kindle support PDFs natively. Why even bother converting to a standard which apparently is less featured and results in conversion bugs if you're supposed to be able to use the original directly? :?
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Combuster wrote:From wikipedia, I get that your Kindle support PDFs natively. Why even bother converting to a standard which apparently is less featured and results in conversion bugs if you're supposed to be able to use the original directly? :?
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I know exactly who I'm dealing with, and sadly, he hasn't improved since last time I hinted him to GTFO. (see the bootprog thread) :(
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