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This is amazing! Will make my (offline-only) Kindle finally display scientific papers. Took a random link of arxiv and it worked like a charm, including TOC. will this be OS'ed?

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You may check out https://arxiv-vanity.com as well. OS, convertation rates are close to 70% on random arxiv paper if I'm not mistaken, but hardly can be called stable

There is a offline solution if you are looking for, the app is Calibre. It is basically ebook manager & extra. It can convert the PDF into mobi and customizable based on your preference. They have a preset for Kindles. Also it can works with DRM'ed files via DeDRM plugins. And Calibre can export it directly to your Kindle. A fair warning, don't use Calibre if you structured your ebook folder. The app will import everything and keep it within their own database folder thus doubling the space size.

Yay, glad to hear it! If you end up viewing one of these on your Kindle, let us know how well (or not) things work.

We're not sure if it's something that we can distribute as OSS just yet. It relies on a few internal libraries that would also need be publicly released, so it's not as simple as adjusting a single repository's visibility.

See also KOReader [0], if jailbreaking is an option for you. The built-in column splitter works pretty well for the papers I've used it to read.

[0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

I've used KOReader in the past, and it's awesome! Keeping the jailbreak when my kindle randomly decides to updates itself, not so much. (yes I followed instructions to disable updates, but it still somehow managed to update) At some point it becomes too much of a hassle.

Though OP has his kindle offline all the time, so not a issue for them.

It's gotten a lot better since we entered the KindleBreak era. The community went nuclear, and now instead of applying various hacks to try and prevent updates from being downloaded, the jailbreak package includes a little service that (as I understand it) watches the disk and immediately deletes anything that looks like an update package. The MobileRead "Open Sesame!" thread [0] has all the modern tooling in one place, if you're interested.

[0] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=320564

(HTML->Mobi is totally possible)

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