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by sw93 12y ago
Hey, thanks for the interest! In my experience, I've found that the Kindle can convert PDFs pretty well as long as there is extractable text that's not too weirdly formatted (as a cursory test, try viewing a PDF and highlighting w
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by sw93 12y ago
Hey, thanks for the heads up. It's likely because I was matching the host string with "amazon.com". I just pushed a change that should fix that, so you may see the modal as you should now. It's possible there are still e
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by sw93 12y ago
Similar idea, but not implemented with IFTTT (it uses the Dropbox API directly). Thanks for the kind comments! :)
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by sw93 12y ago
Hey, sorry to hear you're having trouble. The snippet scrapes the Amazon site for information about your Kindle devices. It's possible that it's failing because of different Amazon UIs depending on the country. There should b
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Show HN: Send books to your Kindle through Dropbox(kindlebox.me)
26 points by sw93 12y ago|10 comments
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Scott Aaronson's research using the 1000 most common English words(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by sw93 13y ago|0 comments
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by sw93 14y ago
That's true, I've had one myself :) But still, in some countries, the difference between 10 and 20 dollars could actually be significant. It's easy to forget that with so many smart phones in the US.
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The world’s cheapest cell phones are now just $10 each(qz.com)
2 points by sw93 14y ago|3 comments
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by sw93 14y ago
Is there functionality for importing docx? I use this feature all the time in Google Drive, and I think it definitely gives it an edge over Draft (although I love the idea!)
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by sw93 14y ago
Great that you included firefox too. I can't watch netflix on linux, so it helps to have the firefox option for wine.