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+ | ===== What? ===== | ||
+ | Things around the kindle paperwhite. | ||
+ | {{: | ||
+ | ===== reading Japanese content on the paperwhite ===== | ||
+ | Reading Japanese in traditional style, vertically from top to down, is possible. Calibre does not support this. With PDF it is possible to read Japanese vertically, but marking Kanji and looking them up in the dictionary does not work. The following procedure produces .mobi files, appropriate for reading and marking. | ||
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+ | As input, UTF8 textfiles can be used. Or the .zip files obtained from aozora/ | ||
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+ | - get the Aozora pub software and extract it: https:// | ||
+ | - get the kindlegen software and extract it in the same directory: https:// | ||
+ | - start aozora: "java -jar AozoraEpub3.jar" | ||
+ | - select " | ||
+ | - now select the input file and get the .mobi file generated | ||
+ | - obtain a data file from Aozora, for example https:// | ||
+ | - or use a UTF8 textfile with your content as input | ||
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+ | ===== displaying vertical japanese text, method 1 ===== | ||
+ | Getting UTF8 txt files displayed on the paperwhite and beeing able to use the japanese-> | ||
+ | * Get the 「青P」(aop) software, its shareware. The previous website offering it disappeared.. | ||
+ | * start it using "java -jar AOP3.jar" | ||
+ | * configure input file, UTF8 | ||
+ | * configure the 3 fonts, i.e. "/ | ||
+ | * as font sizes, configure 30, 7.5 and 10 | ||
+ | * in tab テキスト configure custom resolution of the paperwhite: 758x1024 | ||
+ | * then a PDF file can be generated | ||
+ | * **cons:** generated PDF is not nice to read on the paperwhite | ||
+ | * **pros:** but text can be marked and looked up in the dictionary | ||
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+ | ===== further software ===== | ||
+ | * OCRmyPDF https:// | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * https:// |