Does anyone know an open-source solution for this? What I read is no one's business and I would never used a web-hosted service for something like this.
One of the problems with doing this in pdf is that for most documents, you need to infer reading order. A decade ago I wrote the code in poppler to do that (yet again, based off papers by Breuel) in order to get multi column select working. At the time I wanted pdfs to be readable on my iRex Iliad... anyhoo, most of the pieces are there in poppler. It can figure out reading order, render piece by piece, and already differentiates between images and text under the hood. Still a lot of work.
Yes! All versions can now be easily jailbroken. The main features (to me) are installing KOReader to view epubs and pdf files, and hacking the screen saver display. The process only takes about an hour, mostly because you are reading, doublechecking, and downloading the right files. This guide[0] is a very good overview. I find mobileread's site to be too wordy and difficult to follow.
Which version would you buy if you were buying a Kindle today? I only owned the one before the DX... managed to crack the screen in an unfortunate elbow-related incident.
Paperwhite has been really good to me. Both Oasis and Voyage look great as well - they have higher resolution than the Paperwhite. And they have real buttons to move between pages, so if I were buying a Kindle today I'd buy one of them depending on my budget (Oasis is more expensive, but slimmer).
Thanks! just tried this out, and it seems to work pretty well.
I'm having some trouble using the margin option -m to strip the vertical sidebar text from an arXiv paper, would you happen to have a solution to that problem that doesn't involve a lot of manual intervention? Using '-m 0.5in' handles the vertical text, but then the body text isn't coming out quite right...
Sorry, not at the moment. I figured out those parameters after tweaking things a bit. You might want to start the conversion with just the name of the file, and use the interactive prompt to try out various parameters.
Agreed. Nothing against the described service or its users, but personally when I'm searching for something like this, "upload" comes right before Ctrl-W for me.
The last time I tried to build k2pdfopt, the source zip was missing a bunch of files. You had to download another zip, which wasn't complete either, and combine the results. And then the build failed because cmake was having a bad hair day. I wanted to like it since the windows exe did seem very handy, but had to give up at that point. (Oh, wait, there was a bit more. I did get it building, but the source assumed fprintf(NULL, "log msg") was a perfectly fine thing to do. That's when I gave up.)
One of the problems with doing this in pdf is that for most documents, you need to infer reading order. A decade ago I wrote the code in poppler to do that (yet again, based off papers by Breuel) in order to get multi column select working. At the time I wanted pdfs to be readable on my iRex Iliad... anyhoo, most of the pieces are there in poppler. It can figure out reading order, render piece by piece, and already differentiates between images and text under the hood. Still a lot of work.