PostgreSQL documentation on kindle - best practices?

On 04/04/11 1:47 AM, Harald Armin Massa wrote:

my google-fu lead me to the following receipts:

- create HTML documentation as single file, use Calibre to convert
- use downloadable HTML-documentation, convert via Calibre (minor
problems are reported, as in "wrong order of sections")
- download PDF and convert via Calibre
- download PDF and put on kindle

.... 1-3 and use different conversion tools.

So my question: has anyone found a best practice solution to convert
the PostgreSQL documentaiton into a kindle-friendly format? Or has
even an .azw file downloadable somewhere?

if kindle can view PDFs, I dunno why you wouldn't use that, unless its a
page size issue.

On 4 April 2011 09:52, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:

On 04/04/11 1:47 AM, Harald Armin Massa wrote:

my google-fu lead me to the following receipts:

- create HTML documentation as single file, use Calibre to convert
- use downloadable HTML-documentation, convert via Calibre (minor
problems are reported, as in "wrong order of sections")
- download PDF and convert via Calibre
- download PDF and put on kindle

.... 1-3 and use different conversion tools.

So my question: has anyone found a best practice solution to convert
the PostgreSQL documentaiton into a kindle-friendly format? Or has
even an .azw file downloadable somewhere?

if kindle can view PDFs, I dunno why you wouldn't use that, unless its a

The problem with PDFs are that they are fixed-size, in that you have
to zoom in and scroll around the page to read everything on a Kindle.
An e-book format would re-flow content to match the e-book reader and
allow the user to adjust text size.

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So my question: has anyone found a best practice solution to convert
the PostgreSQL documentaiton into a kindle-friendly format? Or has
even an .azw file downloadable somewhere?

Best wishes,

Harald

You could always send the pdf file and get it converted to kindle format,
free of cost. It is not a good idea to try and read pdf files in Kindle.
You have to send the pdf file to <kindleusername>@free.kindle.com
Regards,
Jayadevan

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On Apr 4, 4:00 am, Jayadevan.Maym...@ibsplc.com (Jayadevan M) wrote:

So my question: has anyone found a best practice solution to convert
the PostgreSQL documentaiton into a kindle-friendly format? Or has
even an .azw file downloadable somewhere?

Best wishes,

Harald

You could always send the pdf file and get it converted to kindle format,
free of cost. It is not a good idea to try and read pdf files in Kindle.
You have to send the pdf file to <kindleusername>@free.kindle.com
Regards,
Jayadevan

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I looks like a tagged PDF will reflow on supporting devices such as
kindle. EPUB seems to be an alternative.
http://www.google.com/search?q=pdf+reflow&amp;hl=en&amp;num=10&amp;lr=&amp;ft=i&amp;cr=&amp;safe=images&amp;tbs=

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