KindleComicConverter is a MacOS X AppleScript droplet to convert image folders to a comic-type Mobipocket ebook to take advantage of the new Panel View mode on Amazon's Kindle.

REQUIREMENTS

Python (included in MacOS and Linux, follow the official documentation to install on Windows)
kindlegen in /usr/local/bin/
unrar and rarfile.py for calibre2ebook.py automatic CBR extracting.
comic2ebook.py can optionally use the Python Imaging Library to correctly set the image resolution on OPF file, please refer to official documentation for installing into your system.

USAGE

Drop a folder over the droplet, after a while you'll get a comic-type .mobi to sideload on your Kindle.
The script takes care of calling comic2ebook.py, kindlegen and kindlestrip.py.

For the standalone comic2ebook.py script:

python comic2ebook.py <directory> <title>

WARNING: at the moment the script does not perform image manipulation. Image optimization and resizing (HD Kindles want 758x1024, non-HD ones 600x800) is up to you.

CREDITS

This script exists as a cross-platform alternative to KindleComicParser by Dc5e (published in this mobileread forum thread)

This droplet relies on and includes KindleStrip (C) by Paul Durrant and released in public domain (mobileread forum thread)

The icon for the droplet is by Nikolay Verin (http://ncrow.deviantart.com/) and released under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Also, you need to have kindlegen v2.7 (with KF8 support) which is downloadable from Amazon website and installed in /usr/local/bin/

CHANGELOG

1.00 - Initial version
1.10 - Added support for CBZ/CBR files in comic2ebook.py

TODO

add transparent support for CBZ/CBR archives
bundle a script to manipulate images (to get rid of Mangle/E-nki/whatsoever)

calibre2ebook.py

Add gracefully exit for CBR if no rarfile.py and no unrar executable are found
Improve error reporting

README.md

KindleComicConverter