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by sdfqasdghj
2097 days ago
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EDIT: Look at my second edit... END EDIT Why not provide a stand alone binary copy2kindle (or sync2kindle) and let me use that? Instead we need to accept that in order to do a single task the tool needs to first re-organise the world. EDIT:
That doesn't mean that one can't also create a tool that manages the library on top of the various binaries. In fact if one architects the app fairly reasonably it would be very little additional effort (or could be done by third parties). EDIT 2:
WOW! Calibre has done exactly this... There is a whole range of ebook-* commands. (Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587793) |
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I understand that some people like a whole book management suite. Particularly people who don't use much tech, so it's just their computer + their Kindle + their phone.
But others need something task-oriented. I don't just mean whiny software devs like myself, but students, researchers and - in general - people juggling more devices and document types. Such a user needs a bullshit-free way to view an .epub by double-clicking on it straight in their Dropbox folder. A "send to Kindle" under a right-click menu. A "Kindle sync" that works by having it mount itself as removable storage, so that you can simply copy files over, the same way you put your music on your Android phone.
(Hell, maybe even a dedicated app would be good - one that looks like an orthodox file manager[0], showing you your files on one side, Kindle on the other, and helpfully detecting when you upload the same file twice. But that app would be orthogonal to the concept of opening a book, and to the concept of managing a book library. And I'd still want the right-click context menu integration. Hell, Windows actually had a place for it since time immemorial - the "Send To" section of the context menu!)
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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man... - i.e. Norton Commander, Total Commander and friends.