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title: "PDF To Kindle"
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date: 2020-06-14T21:54:21-04:00
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draft: false
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tags: []
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---
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This post will outline a process I take in order to get content from a website onto my Kindle.
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## Suggested Software
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- To save a webpage as a PDF, we will use [WeasyPrint](https://weasyprint.org/).
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- To convert the PDF into a more Kindle readable format, including converting math type properly, we're going to use [k2pdfopt](https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/).
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- Finally we're going to use [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/) to copy metadata and convert to an ebook format.
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```bash
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sudo apt install weasyprint k2pdfopt calibre
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```
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## Process
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Now I'll show how we can take the [Noise Protocol specification](http://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html) and send it to the Kindle.
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First let's download the page as a PDF
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```bash
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weasyprint https://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html noise.pdf
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```
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Then let's use `k2pdfopt` to convert the PDF to a more Kindle friendly format,
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```bash
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k2pdfopt noise.pdf -ui- -x
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```
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This will produce the file `noise_k2opt.pdf`, but sadly without the metadata. We can copy that over,
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```bash
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ebook-meta noise.pdf --to-opf temp.opf && \
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ebook-meta noise_k2opt.pdf --from-opf temp.opf && \
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rm temp.opf
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```
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Finally we can convert it to a Kindle friendly file format.
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```bash
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ebook-convert noise_k2opt.pdf noise.azw3
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```
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This will give us `noise.azw3` which we can then transfer over to the Kindle. |