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What I'd really like to see, personally, is Dropbox syncing over wifi with an arbitrary library of ebooks.

• semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  On stock (and jailbroken) Kindles you can send PDFs or MOBIs to username@kindle.com and have them auto-downloaded to your Kindle. Many people use Calibre[1] (FOSS, win/mac/linux) to sync/manage their ebook collection using this feature. You could easily couple it with Dropbox. You can also use Calibre to have newspapers/magazines sent to your Kindle every morning. There's tons of recipes for scraping BBC, NYTimes, WaPo or $local_paper, rendering with custom CSS to get readable ad-free version, converting to MOBI and sending to Kindle. There has even been SaaS offerings running hosted Calibre cronjobs with user-provided recipes. Not sure if any still exist. [1] https://calibre-ebook.com https://calibre-ebook.com
  • zyxley 10y ago
    > On stock (and jailbroken) Kindles you can send PDFs or MOBIs to username@kindle.com and have them auto-downloaded to your Kindle. That's no good for me because I tend to do a lot of random edits of my epub collection to fix editing errors, replace cover images with better ones, etc. The reason I want Dropbox is to automatically propagate changes like that, not just to transfer files over.
    • semi-extrinsic 10y ago
      Upstream comment recommends running KOreader on jailbroken Kindle for (amongst other things) syncing with Calibre. I'm assuming this is two-way sync, but I don't know.