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I made this version. It would be great with 'Pull Request's with the kind of improvements that is being suggested here. The source is at https://github.com/autotelicum/Smooth-CoffeeScript/tree/gh-p...

I would also like to know if the 'Send to Kindle' readability function results in a readable document. That was the reason for making this version.

A pdf version, a quick reference and a JavaScript supplement is on the web site at http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/

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I'm waiting to receive it on my Kindle through the Send to Kindle button - I'll report back if and when I get it.

Edit: Okay got it - was really easy to setup with the Readability button. Flipping though the book - the pictures at the start are fine, links open up the browser correct, the prose portion is nicely formatted. The code snippets are, sadly, pretty unreadable. Using the default font most of the lines wrap and it becomes a mess (compounded by coffeescript indentations). Things were a bit better on the Kindle Fire - but that's essentially a tablet browser and I would just go directly to the website vs having it sent as a document.

I'll add that on my Kindle Fire, the code snippets were quite readable when turning into landscape mode.

Not sure if the e-ink Kindles switch to landscape mode as easily.

Kindle3 has landscape, Kindle Touch does not.

Thanks. I will look into what more I can do tomorrow with the Readability and Kindle documentation, maybe some tweaks to CSS or something.

I've yet to find a technical book with lots of snippets that I can read on the Kindle - so it may be a losing battle

Agreed. Though I've tried hard to do so. Kindle is just not a code-friendly device. Landscape helps, but is a pain in the ass to read the non-code text in landscape (for the same reasons as given by the poster above who complained about the wide website text) and advancing pages is painful.

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