WordDumb
A calibre plugin that generates Kindle Word Wise and X-Ray files for KFX, AZW3, MOBI and EPUB eBook. (by xxyzz)
safaribooks
Download and generate EPUB of your favorite books from O'Reilly Learning (aka Safari Books Online) library. (by lorenzodifuccia)
| WordDumb | safaribooks | |
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| 15 | 6 | |
| 334 | 4,461 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.8 | 2.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License |
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WordDumb
Posts with mentions or reviews of WordDumb.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.
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Create Kindle X-ray with calibre?
Manual here: https://xxyzz.github.io/WordDumb/
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Any developers have tips on building apps for a jailbroken Kindle
X-ray. You want X-ray. For sideloaded books you can try https://github.com/xxyzz/WordDumb
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Some kind soul can help me?
What part are you failing on? The earliest one, assuming you have Calibre installed already, is that you should be downloading from the releases page and not trying to download the entire code repository.
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Is there a way to make epub show page numbers?
First option is to use Count pages plugin, and second option is to use kfx output, which you can enable option to create approximate page numbers. Also worth mentioning that the kfx outputs also supports x-ray and word wise, if you use WordDumb plugin.
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Best format to convert to?
github page here, mobileread page here
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Worddumb stopped working after updating Calibre
Since that itself is pretty opaque to non-techies, the Wordumb home forum is here, and it looks like the github page you need page is here.
- Show HN: WordDumb, a calibre plugin that helps you read books
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Help out a noob. So I want to get a kindle, but I would ideally like to download my books. I used to do it years ago but I’m pretty sure it’s changed 😅
WordDumb You can use this to generate Word Wise and X-ray for your ebooks.
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How to sideload ebooks to kindle
go to calibre prefrences, click on plugin, click on install new plugin search for kfx output, kfx input and worddumb (documentation for these plugin is availabe here kfx output , kfx input and worddumb ) (note: for worddumb you also need to install python)
- Can you upload converted (to kindle formats) epub/pdf files to a Kindle Paperwhite 5?
safaribooks
Posts with mentions or reviews of safaribooks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- Downloading books from OReilly Safari with the school account
- I was searching Google using a program and got temporarily blacklisted.
- Does Paperwhite Have The Oreilly App?
- Safaribooks: Download and generate ePub from O'Reilly Learning library
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Can we download books from Oreilly if we have a subscription on it ?
Github for example: https://github.com/lorenzodifuccia/safaribooks
- Can I read O'Reilly books offline
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WordDumb and safaribooks you can also consider the following projects:
wisecreator - Utility for adding word wise information to non amazon books
acsm-calibre-plugin - Calibre plugin for ACSM->EPUB and ACSM->PDF conversion.
calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
FanFicFare - FanFicFare is a tool for making eBooks from stories on fanfiction and other web sites.
calibre-kindle-comics - A calibre plugin that converts your comics into a readable format for kindle.
rake-nltk - Python implementation of the Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction algorithm using NLTK.
jncep - Command-line tool to generate EPUB files for J-Novel Club pre-pub novels
jmdict-kindle - Japanese - English dictionary for Kindle based on the JMdict / EDICT database
lightnovel-crawler - Generate and download e-books from online sources.
DeDRM_tools - DeDRM tools for ebooks
ebooklib - Python E-book library for handling books in EPUB2/EPUB3 format -
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