Solution for those w/ problems reading SCM ebooks on Kindle!

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  • July 29, 2011 at 1:01 am
    Shawnab
    Participant

    Hi all,

    I just wanted to share a solution I found for the formatting problems I was having reading Stories of the Nations and Stories of America on my Kindle. When I sent them to my Kindle as PDFs, the font was so small it was miserable to read. Then, I tried using Amazon’s conversion function by typing “Convert” in the title of my email when I sent the PDF. The font size was great and it looked like a Kindle book…but I found that the books were randomly missing portions of text. Not good. 

    So, next I downloaded the free software “Calibre” http://calibre-ebook.com/ The program was easy to use and I converted the PDFs to “mobi” files, and then emailed them to my Kindle. Now, the formatting and font is great, and ALL the content is there! 

    Yay! 

    This was a great solution. 

    Although…I’m begging for SCM to make all your books available in Kindle format! 

    🙂

    Shawna

    July 29, 2011 at 1:08 am
    Doug Smith
    Keymaster

    Calibre does a pretty good job if the book is mostly one column of text without any fancy formatting. Our books with sidebars and such don’t come out quite as well.

    Although…I’m begging for SCM to make all your books available in Kindle format!

    We want to, and I’m sure we’ll get there, but it’s a lot of work to do them well. So we have to juggle that with other priorities for a while.

    July 29, 2011 at 1:21 am
    Shawnab
    Participant

    Hey, thanks Doug. That is good to know. 

    And I am SO grateful for all the SCM resources, and know that you all are busy people trying to raise an education your own families! Please don’t take the Kindle request as a complaint! You guys do a fantastic job!

     

    Shawna

     

    July 29, 2011 at 1:40 am
    Shawnab
    Participant

    Ah yes…like Outdoor Secrets…it doesn’t work. Bummer. However, the nice drawings would be missed on the Kindle anyway. 

    July 29, 2011 at 1:49 am
    Lesley Letson
    Participant

    has anyone had success with Jack’s Insects or Boy of the Pyramids? When I tried (with Calibre) I only got a couple illustrations and no text.

    July 29, 2011 at 1:49 am
    suzukimom
    Participant

    And just wanted to mention – you can get the font a bit bigger on the pdf on the Kindle by putting it in landscape mode…  there isn’t really any cursoring required if you do that.  You can also of course zoom… but then you have to cursor around.

    July 29, 2011 at 1:59 am
    Shawnab
    Participant

    mjemom…that is what happens with Outdoor Secrets too. 

     

     

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