This project is created to convert open source materials to kindle supported format (.mobi)

The conversion is limited to open source licensed books. This project does not include any generated .mobi files and only includes the .recipe file for Calibre.

About calibre recipes

Calibre is a free electronic book management tool. It allows the generation of e-book through scraping RSS or HTML contents. It can be done through a Calibre recipe (in Python). For more details of Calibre recipe kindly refer to Calibre Manual

List of Recipes in calibre-recipes Folder

English

• AOSABook.recipe - The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Computer_Science_from_the_Bottom_Up.recipe - Computer Science from the Bottom Up
• CS183_Peter_Thiel.recipe - Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup
• Designing_Evolvable_Web_APIs_with_ASP_NET - Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
• Dive_Into_Python_3.recipe - Dive Into Python 3
• Explore_Flask.recipe - Explore Flask
• Forecasting_Principles_and_Practice.recipe - Forecasting Principles and Practice
• Git_Pocket_Guide.recipe - Git Pocket Guide
• High_Performance_Browser_Networking.recipe - High Performance Browser Networking
• Introduction_to_Linux.recipe - Introduction to Linux
• Learn_Python_the_Hard_Way.recipe - Learn Python The Hard Way, 3rd Edition
• Learn_Vimscript_the_Hard_Way.recipe - Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
• Mastering_Perl.recipe - Mastering Perl
• Programming_JavaScript_Applications.recipe - Programming JavaScript Applications
• Python_Cookbook.recipe - Python Cookbook
• SICP.recipe - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Test_Driven_Web_Development_with_Python - Test-Driven Web Development with Python
• Interactive_Data_Visualization_for_the_Web - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

Simplified Chinese

• A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication.recipe - 通信的数学理论
• AngularJS_Tutorial_Cn.recipe - AngularJS入门教程

Usage

GUI

1. Install Calibre Download
2. Go to Fetch news, Load recipe from file to add your recipe.
3. Go to Fetch news, Schedule news download, Custom, select the recipe added in step 1 and click Download Now
4. For more details, kindly refer to Calibre Manual

Terminal

1. Install Calibre

   • Archlinux

   pacman -S calibre

   • Debian/Ubuntu

   apt-get install calibre

   • RedHat/Fedora/CentOS

   yum -y install calibre

   • Mac OSX - Requires [Command Line Tool] (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/cli-index.html)。

2. Execute the following command in calibre-recipes folder

   ebook-convert xxx.recipe xxx.mobi

   For example

   ebook-convert AOSABook.recipe AOSABook.mobi

   It will generate AOSABook.mobi in the same folder.