I love reading on my kindle, however I have found that it just is not a good format for any type of technical manual, PDF or otherwise. If you are going to read something straight through it works fine, but it is difficult to jump around within a document. I find myself doing that a lot in technical manuals to lookup something talked about elsewhere. I end up going to printed manuals or PDF on a full laptop/desktop instead. That is just my personal experience with it.
You may want to check out something like the iPad, or one of the Android versions that are coming out now, it may work better for this purpose. Frank Finley -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 3:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
