sergiye / fb2kindle

Fb2Kindle is a portable, open-source fb2 books converter into Amazon Kindle formats (mobi & epub)

Fb2Kindle

Fb2Kindle is a portable, open-source fb2 books converter into Amazon Kindle formats (mobi & epub).

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Download Latest Version

Fb2Kindle provides an easy to use solution to convert, format with customizable css, combine multiple files into one and send your e-books to the Amazon Kindle devices.

The latest stable version can be downloaded from the releases page, or get the newer one directly from: Latest Version

Features include:

• Support for .fb2 files as input and .mobi/.epub files as output
• Joining several .fb2 books from folder to one output file (for book series)
• Send generated book to email (see arguments)
• Multiple commandline arguments for customizing behavior

Build

The recommended way to get the program is BUILD from source

• Install git, Visual Studio (2022 or higher)
• git clone https://github.com/sergiye/fb2kindle.git
• build

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How To Use

To use:

• Download the latest version from releases
• There is no installation required, just start executable file from anywhere on your computer
• Drag and drop any .fb2 file to an app icon in file explorer to convert single file (with default options)

Start and possible command-line arguments

Fb2Kindle.exe [options]

• <path>: input .fb2 file path or files mask (ex: *.fb2) or path to .fb2 files

• -epub: create file in epub format

• -css <styles.css>: styles used in destination book (example can be found here: Fb2Kindle/Fb2Kindle.css)

• -a: process all .fb2 books in app folder

• -r: process files in subfolders (work with -a key)

• -j: join files from each folder to the single book

• -o: hide detailed output

• -w: wait for key press on finish

• -mailto: send document to email (kindle send-by-email delivery, see -save option to configure SMTP server)

• -save: save parameters (listed below) to be used at the next start (Fb2Kindle.json file)

• -d: delete source file after successful conversion

• -u or -update: update application to the latest version. You can combine it with the -save option to enable auto-update on every run

• -s: add sequence and number to the document title

• -c (same as -c1) or -c2: use compression (slow)

• -ni: no images

• -dc: DropCaps mode

• -g: grayscale images

• -jpeg: save images in jpeg

• -ntoc: no table of content

• -nch: no chapters

Examples:

Fb2Kindle.exe somebook.fb2
Fb2Kindle.exe "c:\booksFolder\*.fb2"
Fb2Kindle.exe -a -r -j -d -w
Fb2Kindle.exe "c:\bookSeries\*.fb2" -j -epub -mailto [e-mail] -update -save

also you can check cmd script examples in archive here other/scripts.7z

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License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.