Aozora Bunko text for Kindle (mobi)

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Reply #1 - 2013 January 18, 9:48 am
insanelysick New member
From: Nottingham Registered: 2010-12-21 Posts: 4

Apologies if this has been posted before but I found a site that has Aozora Bunko text ready made into mobi files that you can put on your kindle.
MOBIぞら文庫
Which means no more PDF conversions and the paperwhite can look up words in teh dictionary! Happy days!

Reply #2 - 2013 January 20, 12:50 pm
NickT Member
From: London Registered: 2006-12-16 Posts: 109

Interesting, thanks!

I tried it and it works pretty good. Easy to transfer to the Kindle via USB, and dictionary lookup works by touching the words.

However, it comes out as horizontal text (unlike any novel you buy from amazon.co.jp) and also the furigana doesn't display properly  - it just shows up in brackets after the word. Am I doing something wrong?

Reply #3 - 2013 January 21, 7:30 am
weirdo Member
From: california Registered: 2010-01-14 Posts: 34

Here's what I do:

1. Acquire 青空文庫 format book
2. Stick it into AozoraEpub3 to acquire .epub file
http://www18.atwiki.jp/hmdev/pages/21.html
3. Stick that file into Kindle Previewer to get a .mobi file
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?i … 1000765261
4. Enjoy a file with embedded images (if there are any), dictionary look-ups, vertical text, and ruby/furigana in tact.

Details are here
http://ebookyaro.blogspot.jp/2012/10/ki … epub3.html

Last edited by weirdo (2013 January 22, 6:46 am)

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Reply #4 - 2013 January 21, 10:14 am
insanelysick New member
From: Nottingham Registered: 2010-12-21 Posts: 4

Weirdo you are awesome! That is even better, although a bit longer its worth it. I think the new beta can make mobi files directly (can't try it though as it looks for kindlegen.exe and I don't use a windows machine)

This also works on books from other sources. Can't thank you enough mate!

Reply #5 - 2013 January 31, 10:47 pm
anritsi Member
Registered: 2010-07-06 Posts: 50 Website

insanelysick wrote:

I think the new beta can make mobi files directly (can't try it though as it looks for kindlegen.exe and I don't use a windows machine)

It can, you just need to download KindleGen & stick kindlegen.exe into the AozoraEpub3 folder. After that you can convert txts with a drag-and-drop and a click. For Windows, anyway.

Last edited by anritsi (2013 January 31, 10:48 pm)

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