Alas, though html *is* one of the formats that Amazon will convert to .azn for you (for free, even if the resulting file is e-mailed to the user's computer, rather than downloaded to the user's Kindle), the Kindle itself can't (at the moment) support html as an e-book.
Though it does have a primitive web browser; I wonder if it's possible to use the browser on an internal file...?
Or as a really bandwidth inefficient workaround, I could post html books on the web from my computer and use the web browser to read them over the EVDO.
OTOH, I have read on one message board that the .azn files created by conversion of user documents are unprotected .prc files, just with a different extension. (And, for that matter, I've seen speculation on that basis that the DRM'd .azn files are just .prc files with a different DRM than normal secure .prc files. I need to find that board again and read more of it.) Anyway, if that's the case then converted documents would be somewhat cross platform compatible (I think). But I've only seen that info in one place, so I'm not sure how trustworthy it is.
Oops, this reply seems to have gotten out of hand and drifted from the real point, which is thank you for the suggestion--I think it may not work but I will check again in the Kindle manual.
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Date: 2007-12-04 02:18 pm (UTC)Alas, though html *is* one of the formats that Amazon will convert to .azn for you (for free, even if the resulting file is e-mailed to the user's computer, rather than downloaded to the user's Kindle), the Kindle itself can't (at the moment) support html as an e-book.
Though it does have a primitive web browser; I wonder if it's possible to use the browser on an internal file...?
Or as a really bandwidth inefficient workaround, I could post html books on the web from my computer and use the web browser to read them over the EVDO.
OTOH, I have read on one message board that the .azn files created by conversion of user documents are unprotected .prc files, just with a different extension. (And, for that matter, I've seen speculation on that basis that the DRM'd .azn files are just .prc files with a different DRM than normal secure .prc files. I need to find that board again and read more of it.) Anyway, if that's the case then converted documents would be somewhat cross platform compatible (I think). But I've only seen that info in one place, so I'm not sure how trustworthy it is.
Oops, this reply seems to have gotten out of hand and drifted from the real point, which is thank you for the suggestion--I think it may not work but I will check again in the Kindle manual.