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Rails Guides on the Kindle
Synopsis
- Obtain
kindlegen
from the link below and put the binary in your path - Run
KINDLE=1 rake generate_guides
to generate the guides and compile the.mobi
file - Copy
output/kindle/rails_guides.mobi
to your Kindle
Resources
- Stack Overflow: Kindle Periodical Format
- Example Periodical .ncx and .opf
- Kindle Publishing Guidelines
- KindleGen & Kindle Previewer
TODO
Post release
- Integrate generated Kindle document into published HTML guides
- Tweak heading styles (most docs use h3/h4/h5, which end up being smaller than the text under it)
- Tweak table styles (smaller text? Many of the tables are unusable on a Kindle in portrait mode)
- Have the HTML/XML TOC 'drill down' into the TOCs of the individual guides
.epub
generation.