bookdown (version 0.8)

kindlegen: A wrapper function to convert EPUB to the Mobipocket format

Description

This function simply calls the command line tool kindlegen provided by Amazon to convert EPUB e-books to the Mobipocket format (.mobi).

Usage

kindlegen(epub, exec = Sys.which("kindlegen"))

Arguments

epub

The path to a .epub file (e.g. created from the epub_book() format). If missing, it is automatically guessed from the book configurations.

exec

The path to the executable kindlegen, which can be downloaded from http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765211.

Value

The path of the .mobi file if the conversion is successful.