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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 17a82dd..adc28f5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,47 @@ -kcc -=== +KindleComicConverter +============= -KindleComicConverter \ No newline at end of file +KindleComicConverter is a MacOS X AppleScript droplet to convert image folders to a comic-type Mobipocket ebook to take advantage of the new Panel View mode on Amazon's Kindle. + +REQUIREMENTS +------------- + - kindlegen in /usr/local/bin/ + - [http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm](unrar) and [http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5373&release_id=18844](rarfile.py) for calibre2ebook.py automatic CBR extracting + +USAGE +------------- +Drop a folder over the droplet, after a while you'll get a comic-type .mobi to sideload on your kindle. +The script takes care of calling comic2ebook.py, kindlegen and kindlestrip.py. +For the standalone comic2ebook.py script, please refer to CLI help. + +WARNING: at the moment the script does not perform image manipulation. Image optimization and resizing (HD Kindles want 758x1024, non-HD ones 600x800) is up to you. + + +CREDITS +------------- +This script exists as a cross-platform alternative to KindleComicParser by Dc5e +(published in [http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192783](http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192783)) + +This droplet relies and includes KindleStrip (C) by Paul Durrant and released in public domain +([http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96903](http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96903)) + +The icon for the droplet is by Nikolay Verin ([http://ncrow.deviantart.com/](http://ncrow.deviantart.com/)) and released under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License + +Also, you need to have kindlegen v2.7 (with KF8 support) which is downloadable from Amazon website +and installed in /usr/local/bin/ + + +CHANGELOG +------------- + - 1.00 - Initial version + - 1.10 - Added support for CBZ/CBR files in comic2ebook.py + +TODO +------------- + - add transparent support for CBZ/CBR archives + - bundle a script to manipulate images (to get rid of Mangle/E-nki/whatsoever) + +TODO for calibre2ebook.py +------------- + - Add gracefully exit for CBR if no rarfile.py and no unrar executable are found + - Improve error reporting \ No newline at end of file |