Kindle Convert

I think some issues are being missed here. The Amazon Kindle software would be a direct scan into the Kindle format. It should go real well and be nice and clean.

Those reviews of the Kindle software are from people trying to convert existing PDF files they already have into the Kindle format. And obviously it is not working very well.

Now if you go to the free software people are recommending (Calibre) and read a little bit you will see that they say PDF is about the worst possible format for their software to attempt to convert to something else. It is about number 15 on their list of preferred formats to convert. So it is no wonder that Kindle also has a problem trying to convert PDFs.

I think for somebody with old books available only in hard copy the Kindle app might work quite well to get it into electronic format.

Obviously lots of pamphlets and newer guide books these days are available as electronic but for those precious older guide books that we might have the Kindle app or perhaps some free app may do the job for you.

I've had it for free on my lap top and iPad for quite awhile.

Wow, that has some really bad user reviews.

By the by, Calibre is an eBook manager - it allows you to put things on your devices, keep a centralized catalog of eBooks on a computer hard drive, edit existing eBook files, and convert from one format to another (unless there is DRM in place, in which case you're scuttled unless you do something that is not entirely legal). This software appears to perform scans of a physical book into PDFs (essentially it takes pictures of the pages) and turns them into a eBook of sorts (one file with all those scans.) The results will depend greatly on how good that scan is (lighting, contrast, angle of view, etc.) so if you really work at it you might be able to get something decent, but it's going to take some work.

Now, if it could do very solid OCR (scanning the image capture and converting the picture of the words into text format words) it might be something, but there are comments on that specifically being poor. For $20 I'll pass, but thanks for pointing it out - I had not seen it before I read this thread.

- R

Because Amazon sells it and makes you believe it is new and exclusive to Kindle. :)

Calibre is FREE and does the same thing...why would ANYONE buy something that you can get for free....:h....Dennis

Too much work IMO for very little gain. Most of the travel brochures, etc. are already available in PDF format for free download. Kindle can read PDF just fine. Download the EZPDF Reader for Android for an even better PDF experience.

This is the best all round FREE software to manage all your book - library needs

CALIBRE

You should be able to find several free software products that convert std scanned documents into pdf format which Kindle can read -- pretty sure that Amazon software cost you about $20.

More To See wrote:
I could not do a link from my tablet but if you go to Amazon and type in Kindle convert in the search box it will pop up.

Thanks, I guess I just wasn't using the right search terms. Much appreciated.

Thank you.

Interesting, but that sure would be a lot of work, to say the least.