Kindle LaTeX Template

Posted by on January 31, 2011 Leave a comment (12) Go to comments

So I finally got around to buy myself a Kindle from Amazon. Very nice device, but it is not very good with standard pdfs. I have a number of books laying around in text format, and the internet is full of good classics that are public domain (i.e. not under copyright). Check for instance Project Gutenberg which has a number of books available, also prepared for Kindle and other mobile devices. Anyway, as I said, I needed a LaTeX template that is formatted and suitable for generating pdfs for the Kindle. I googled a bit around and found one that, with some modification, worked well.

Here is the template.

…and a few books I’ve formatted using that template:

Jules Verne – A Journey to the Interior of the Earth [PDF] [LaTeX]
Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 Days [PDF] [LaTeX]
Jules Verne – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [PDF] [LaTeX]


Edit on 10.05.2011:
Based on a comment below I tested the template with an equation. To do this i added the following packages:

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}

The result is shown here (click for larger image):Kindle

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12 Comments.

  1. jervis April 23, 2011 at 14:54

    nice work, thanks a lot

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  2. Vinh Nguyen May 10, 2011 at 16:37

    Do you know if we can type math equations, generate a pdf, and have Kindle display them properly? Thanks.

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  3. Writing and publishing books on Kindle - pingback on May 10, 2011 at 16:40
  4. Frank May 10, 2011 at 16:46

    I haven’t tried that, but I would assume that would work. I know I used $$-wrapping on some of the content in one of the books above.

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  5. Vinh Nguyen May 10, 2011 at 20:19

    I just tried writing some math with your template, generated the pdf, and uploaded it to amazon to preview and the math does not show well. Found [this](http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=595) and [this](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16569/latex-document-to-epub-or-mobi-ebook-formats-with-mathematical-formulas), which means math is not (yet?) supported.

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  6. Frank May 10, 2011 at 20:40

    Well, I tested it myself, and it seems to work fine. See my update of the post with a fuzzy mobile phone photo.

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  7. Vinh Nguyen May 10, 2011 at 20:57

    Hmm, try [this](http://pastie.org/1886299) and let me know. I don’t own a kindle, so I uploaded the pdf to the kindle publisher services and did a preview.

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  8. Frank May 10, 2011 at 21:57

    Tried that one too. It displays fine on the Kindle I have.

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  9. MOBI-Books | It's Forty Two! - pingback on June 9, 2011 at 21:49
  10. John Baker July 16, 2011 at 23:04

    Thanks. I have been “Kindle-izing” some LaTeX documents lately with acceptable results. For normal books the ePub format produces a more useful Kindle result but for dense mathematical material re-flowing text is far more difficult. Here a TeX generated PDF is still the best.

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  11. Edward August 18, 2011 at 02:31

    Wow, nice work man, thanks for that. Check out my page for kindle related reviews in the future!

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