KindleComicConverter
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
- kindlegen in /usr/local/bin/
- http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm and http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5373&release_id=18844 for calibre2ebook.py automatic CBR extracting
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, please refer to CLI help.
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 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192783)
This droplet relies and includes KindleStrip (C) by Paul Durrant and released in public domain (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96903)
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)
TODO for calibre2ebook.py
- Add gracefully exit for CBR if no rarfile.py and no unrar executable are found
- Improve error reporting