Let's read it in Kindle

F's News Generator is an offline news reader for amazon Kindle2.
It builds a book (.mobi file) with the table-of-content from a blog's full text you want.
This document was written on blogger.com, then now put on your Kindle.

But now I'm testing the system.
All pages are under consideration but book-creation's at least working for me, so I just figure I'd let you know this.

• You can regist new RSS feed as you like
• You can select any node on a webpage to build a book
• Japanese or UTF-8 encoding is supported
  

I'll show you some pictures for example.
This book was created by F's News Generator .

Sample data sources are gizmodo.jp, and playstation.blog.
Pages that have less images fit to the device.

With a picture and Japanese text. UTF-8 is supported.
You need a Japanese font for showing Japanese. (Kindle has no Japanese font in default)



Table of Contents.
You can seek an article quickly.


A header, contents, and an image.
The title shows a date as you see.
Kindle speaks while 'Speech' is set.



















Also, you can use a dictionary.

Preface: less than 30 seconds

Less than 30sec; the standing time of a metro in Tokyo, japan.
A metro in Tokyo is almost under the coverage of some wireless networks(WiFi/3G), so you can catch a signal while a train is stopping on the station.
But can you do anything worth in 30sec?
Of course, you can send a short message, authorize an account, or press F5-key to reload a page, but you will be in the out of service when you receive the reply.


In last month midle, I bought amazon Kindle2.
It has a wireless chip for the 3G wireless network, it's available in Japan.
It's amazing! No contract, no phone-number, no fee, no entry deposit, but the signal is living.

And I bought some books in the store and enjoy it.
A little displeasure is the store has no stock of Japanese book.
Okay I know that vertical flowing of Japanese does not fit Kindle2's screen and needs a large modification of the software.
Most book publishers in Japan would hate this, however, no surprising for me if Japanese is appeared in horizontal flowing nor lacking a ruby on a Kanji.
(for these, PDF is the powerful solution. unfortunately, Kindle2's PDF Reader is not totally good)

Not that I would say Kindle2 disappointed me.
I would like to read Japanese documents even if I take a metro.

So, this is a reason why I programmed the F's News Generator.