A simple script to download ".mobi" file from Wikisource to send to kindle devices.
I've already made it here. Send2Kindle
A simple script to download ".mobi" file from Wikisource to send to kindle devices.
I've already made it here. Send2Kindle
Is there a problem with the existing means to do this ?
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php
I know that every English Wikisource work has the download section on its page
Download/print
Download/print Create a book Download as PDF Download as EPUB Download as MOBI
displays at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography
Existing tool helps to download a book. What I'm proposing is to send ".mobi" format books into kindle directly.
We're using this in our community project called FreeTamilEbooks(https://freetamilebooks.com)
I assume the idea is to have the backend email the books directly to the Kindle address?
I don't see why that's not possible, technically speaking, it's just an SMTP server. Probably the biggest issue with it is the care needed to protect personal information. Farming out to a third-party emailing service like "send2kindle" is unlikely to be permissible.
And the second issue might (or might not be) that homebrew mailservers might get blocked by spam filters and dealing with that is non-zero maintenance (though perhaps the WMF email user system can provide this?)
It sounds like Amazon are dropping mobi support for the email-to-device service: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079175 (I can't find an official source).