[OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:31:27 -0700


Lee Damon <nomad@ee.washington.edu> writes:

> Recent kindles can read PDF and ePub.

How recent?  I got mine literally a month ago, and I don't see any sign of
ePub support.  Although maybe it just doesn't advertise; I suppose I
should actually try it.

I know it supports PDF, but PDF is kind of useless for portable devices.

> MOBI is restricted in that the only commonly-available reader that can
> handle it is kindle.  Why limit your audience like that?  ePub is
> common, un-restricted, and open. PDF is even more so (though less
> flexible in re-flow and other formatting - if that matters to you).

It doesn't need to be an either/or decision.  Once you have either ePub or
MOBI, I believe there are existing tools, like Calibre, to convert, even
if the publication chain can't generate either from the start.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>