Amazon Kindle 2 : Accessories, Software & resources

Kindle 2 is one of the useful gadgets I ever bought. It changed my reading habits positively in many ways. In this post, I tried summarizing the best accessories, software and other online resources available to kindle owners

Accessories:

Kindle Cover :  Amazon Kindle 2 cover seems the best value option to me. It fits well and feels great to hold while reading. For 30$ it's not that cheap but it's a necessay investment to protect your kindle. Amazon Kindle 2 Leather Cover

Booklight: Mighty bright XtraFlex2 book light is a well built booklight with optical grade lens for great lighting with no hot spots. Mightyl bright XtraFlex2 booklight

There are cheaper alternatives in ebay. You get a cover, booklight and a screen guard for 15$. Ebay Kindle Accessories bundle. The slip on cover perfectly fits the kindle 2 and the book light also works fine. But I never suggest putting that screen guard over the kindle screen.

 

Software:

Calibre: Calibre is a opensource crossplatform e-book management software which has got inbuilt reader and converter. It detects kindle 2 and perfect for document conversion from many formats to kindle format. Further it can convert news feeds to be read on kindle

Get Calibre here : http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ 

Stanza:  Stanza has got a export feature for Kindle. It handles the pdf conversion for kindle very well than any other software available. It's even better than Amazon's doc conversion service 

Get Stanza desktop here : http://www.lexcycle.com/download  

PDFRead: PDFRead 1.8 takes a different approach by converting pdf pages into pictures using scripts. PDF docs with complex formatting requires trial and error to have a successful conversion for kindle

Check out this forum post : http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40725

Mobipocket : This is the standard converter for kindle but pdf conversion is not so great.

Get Mobipocket here : http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN

 

Online Resources :

Some great links for kindle info

Mobile read kindle forum : http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=140

Kindle reverse engineering & hacks : http://igorsk.blogspot.com/

Kindle book source : http://www.feedbooks.com/

100 kindle tips & tricks : http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2008/06/17/hack-your-kindle-100-tips-resources-and-tutorials-to-get-more-out-of-the-amazon-kindle/

 

 

Comments

[Saravana]

I need to go for kindle.Look and feels is awesome