[tei-council] streamlining release procedures

[Martin Holmes]

OK, the Calibre build of .mobi is here:

<http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/martin/guidelines/Guidelines.mobi>

Can someone with a Kindle give it a try?

It took about an hour and a half to build.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-01-20 12:10 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Over an hour ago, I started Calibre at the command line converting the
> latest ePub version of the Glines to mobi. It's still running.
>
> So we may be stuck with kindlegen.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 13-01-20 11:09 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> That's a great idea. I'm running a conversion right now using the
>> command-line Calibre ebook-convert, from the latest ePub build on Jinks,
>> and I'll post the resulting .mobi to the web so people with Kindles can
>> test it. (I don't have access to one.)
>>
>> It's taking a few minutes, and it's already thrown up a few errors, but
>> they don't look like show-stoppers (complaints about webkit-prefixed CSS
>> properties etc.).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 13-01-20 10:27 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> What if we replace kindlegen with calibre?  While it doesn't produce PRC
>>> as an output format, it can do MOBI and the newer Kindle formats:
>>>
>>> http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Format_support_by_device
>>>
>>> --Kevin
>>>
>>> On 1/20/13 1:16 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> Wonderful work by Sebastian!
>>>>
>>>> My Jinks, which doesn't do kindlegen (nasty closed-source proprietary
>>>> etc. etc.) is down to 23 minutes. But I think we'll end up putting
>>>> kindlegen on mine eventually, because otherwise it's not a true
>>>> alternative source for our products.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> On 13-01-20 10:02 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>> Some things I can't help
>>>>> (like the ever-damned Amazon "kindlegen" programme, and TeX)