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Kindlepedia

May 25, 2009

Update! If you like the way Kindlepedia works, give eReadUps a try. Choose multiple articles to format in a single book!

Create your own Kindle-formatted articles from Wikipedia by inserting the URL from the page you want to format from Wikipedia and press the button. A link to the formatted article will appear; just click on it to download to your computer. Then drag the file into the documents folder on your Kindle using the USB cord.

Some popular articles you might want to try (just copy the URL into the box above and press the button):

For current events on a daily basis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Brush up on the Supreme Court prior to President Obama’s nomination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Learn about President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
What does Obama mean by “empathy”? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

Or just head on over to Wikipedia and select an article on your own!

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19 Responses to Kindlepedia

Pierre on June 15, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Hi,

Thanks! This is a great script.

The name might be a bit confusing though since the result isn’t limited to use on the Kindle. Any eBook reader that reads MOBI-files can open the results.

Would it be possible to mod the script a bit so that it also accepts non-English Wikipedia URLs?
For example: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle
Currently it just throws an error if I try that.

Thanks again for this useful resource!

Pierre
willd on June 15, 2009 at 8:15 pm

Hi Pierre–thanks for the comment. We are looking at other languages for future development. The tool does create files that can be loaded on other devices and folks like you get that. Glad you find it useful! Will
janien on June 17, 2009 at 5:13 am

Very very interesting: building the future of education! I’m still an absolute beginner … but I’m a believer, and Edukindle gives me wings with Kindlepedia.
Burt on June 24, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Kindlepedia doesn’t seem to work.
I just get “gibberish”.
willd on June 25, 2009 at 9:24 pm

Hi Burt, I just checked it with Firefox and IE and it seems to be working ok. Try using the complete Wikipedia URL to make sure you aren’t getting a disambiguation page from Wikipedia (which happens if it can’t tell which topic you are looking for among several choices). We will check further to try to diagnose the problem.
Philip Mulrane on August 12, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Hi,
this is great! I visited an art exhibition at the weekend with my family, and I downloaded the Wikipedia articles on the various artists onto my Kindle before I went. One wee point, does the entire license have to be appended to every download? Wouldn’t a link to the main license + a summary be enough?
willd on August 14, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Hi Philip–thanks for the comment. That is exactly the kind of thing that Kindlepedia was created to do. Hope it added to your experience!

You know, under the GFDL you are required to append the complete license to each use in order to conform to the terms. But good news! Wikipedia just adopted the Creative Commons license that does allow the solution you mention. We will make adjustments to the files soon. We’ve been busy on an upgrade to the whole system that we plan to launch in September.
gagan on October 24, 2009 at 2:06 am

First when i found this i was really happy, as i read wikipedia a lot and now i could do that on my kindle.

But when ever i try to convert any article it never works. Download button does come but when i click on it, page not found (404 error) comes up.

Please fix this soon.
regards
willd on October 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

Sorry for the inconvenience–we are working on the problem! Thanks for using Kindlepedia!
Roy on December 28, 2009 at 10:04 am

Thanks it is a great script. The picture however does not seem to make it correctly. I saw the same problem with http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype/.
The URL I used to test conversion was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_game
Cat on June 2, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Used to be great. Now… very slow or unable to complete request.
willd on June 10, 2010 at 3:33 pm

Thanks, Cat! We’re working on it!
vorona on October 26, 2010 at 5:51 pm

Great tools but don’t work with french pages
Dave on October 31, 2010 at 7:15 pm

The results look good on my Kindle, but it appears to have stripped out all of the section headings. For example, in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardis, the title of the page (“TARDIS”) is in the mobi document, but not any of the boldface section headings (“Conceptual history,” “General characteristics,” etc.) in the rest of the article.
willdela on November 1, 2010 at 7:32 am

Dave, thanks for the input. Try building your book at http://www.eReadUps.com, which is our currently supported site for building books. I do want to fix Kindlepedia’s issues, like the one you mention, but I can’t promise a timeline for that. I am sending you the eReadUps version for your reference. This service is free for building books like Kindlepedia.
Matt on December 15, 2010 at 9:05 am

Terrific idea Will.
Geordi on April 26, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Wow! I read about this in a kindle book! Its amazing! Much easier then printing all the wiki pages to a pdf and then converting them! Thanks!
Mark Z on February 28, 2012 at 6:09 pm

Both the Kindlepedia and the ereadups websites seem to be broken. I have not been able to use them for awhile. Are they still supported?
willd on March 8, 2012 at 10:08 am

Hi Mark, we missed a change in Google’s search result reporting but it is now fixed at eReadUps. Will check on Kindlepedia. Thanks for the heads’ up!