Video Tutorial: How to Send to Kindle after the "Send to Kindle" service is switched off
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In any case, Logos has had for quite some time a limitation on the export to 100 pages at a time. This is still true in Logos 10.
Not having uniform heading styles in your book would certainly make it more time consuming.
In some cases, converting from Logos to ebook formats is the only option if the book is not available in other ebook formats other than Logos. I'm currently working on converting The Revised English Bible to kindle format as because as far as I've been able to find the only ebook format it is available in is in Logos. It does have consistent formatting for the book and chapter headings, but unfortunately Word requires the headings to be on their own line, and the REB has the chapter numbers on the same line with the text of the chapter, so I have to add a carriage return after the chapter numbers and then do the exercise of selecting all text with similar formatting and changing the chapter numbers to Heading 2 to get a proper hierarchical table of contents.
A few other tips - 1) I've been following another procedure which is found here: https://wiki.logos.com/Export_a_Logos_Resource_to_an_eReader_format_$28Kindle,_Nook,_etc.$29. It also works well. 2) The only caveat is that in Step 11 it tells you to use Calibre to export the book to your device, which does work, but I ended up with a huge flat TOC with the books and chapters all in one lengthy list. After a bit of investigation I discovered that it was automatically converting the book to MOBI format on my Kindle. If I used Calibre to manually convert the book to Amazon's native AZW3 format first, then that is the format that it will transfer to the device, and you end up with a proper hierarchical table of contents, being able to expand the books to get the chapter links (hope that makes sense).
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Okay, so it looks like there's now three possible ways to read a Logos book on an e-ink Kindle:
- Continue doing a normal "Send to Kindle" method as described here. This is the most popular and known method in these more recent threads, but raises legal/ethical concerns for many and takes too long for others.
- Jailbreak/root the Kindle, turn it into a second monitor for your computer, and open/control Logos on your PC. This is hard, risky, clunky, and apparently irrevocably destroys some Kindles (or, at least my particular Paperwhite 6) from being a normal Kindle ever again.
- Go to Biblia.com in the Experimental Browser and use Article Mode. It was mentioned in 2011 threads, but I only found it after browsing this forum for the past year or so.
I just confirmed that #3 still works 12 years later on my Paperwhite 6. It requires no special setup, no hacking, and no (as far as I know) potential ethical/legal concerns.
Cons of #3:
- It is slightly clunky because it takes a little maneuvering to ignore the "invalid certificate," log in, get to your library, choose the book, go to the contents, and choose the section you want to start from. However, if you trim everything past the period in the URL (so, for example, if the URL ends in /article/R10.1.1A, trim it to /article/R10) and then go to article mode, it may load a huge portion of the book instead of just that section so that you don't have to go out of Article Mode every time you finish a section. Otherwise, you need to get out of Article Mode (or just don't use Article Mode altogether) and tap the faint-ish arrows to move to the next section.
- Like #2, this will only let you view the book, not highlight and make notes.
- Footnotes don't seem to work when tapped on my PW6 (in Article Mode or not).
- Forum users say it drains battery faster by being on the internet.
- You need internet to load the book.
- It only scrolls; no page turns by just tapping the screen.
- I don't see a way to adjust it from the default font size (plenty readable for me, but something to note).
- Switching to desktop mode out of curiosity makes you need to clear your cache and/or cookies and re-log in.
As one who almost did option #2, I just want to make sure other browsers of this forum like me can find that #3 exists. I, for one, think it's super cool that Faithlife still hosts Biblia.com when they have app.logos.com, ostensibly for just such backwards-compatible and lower-spec use cases. Even if limited in its current state, it may be able to get the job done for some.
Here's a few old threads that mention #3:
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/39450.aspx
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Thank you for sharing these options. I've bought so many books over the years, but haven't tried to read them outside of Logos since they got rid of the Vyrso app. I was just starting to read a book and was feeling bummed about my best option being to read it on an iOS device and just leave a tab open until I finished the book. This thread shows me it's possible to export the book to Kindle, and while not perfect, I'm so glad to find this, as I've been having trouble with my eyes lately on computer screens. Being able to read on my Kindle is a real blessing!
If you have a paid version of Microsoft Word, there is now an add-on that restores the "Send to Kindle" functionality, and it's really good! Yes, we're still subject to the 100 page limit, so obviously you wouldn't want to use this for lots of books all at once. For me, it's just a way to be able to read the books I've purchased on a more eye-friendly device.
You mentioned some having ethical concerns. If it's for your own use, I'm not sure what those concerns would be. I believe this falls under "fair use", and I'm very thankful that the means to do so are still present. No book exported in this way should be shared with anyone else, as I believe the intent is to allow us to get the most use out of the resources we've purchased.
Thank, you Logos, for permitting this kind of use.
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