Video Tutorial: How to Send to Kindle after the "Send to Kindle" service is switched off
Faithlife have announced that on 31 March 2016, they're disabling their "Send to Kindle" service. That means you won't be able to automatically send Logos resource to Kindle. There's good news though. You can still send Logos resources to a Kindle device, it just takes a little longer (about 10 minutes per resource). These walkthrough will guide you through that process.
And there's more good news: It's a lot simpler than it used to be in Logos 5 days.
First, here's the video: https://youtu.be/ANfakC6QSlw
Or, if you prefer, here are instructions:
- Download the Send to Kindle software from www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle and install it.
- In Program Settings, make sure "Copy footnotes" reflects your preference.
- Open the resource you want to send, and on the resource menu:
- Reduce the text size to the minimum possible.
- Make sure "Show footnotes on page" is off.
- Choose Print/Export
- Press CTRL+A then CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to remove all hyperlinks.
- If you want, remove the formatting from old hyperlinks by clicking in one, then choose "Select text with similar formatting". The set the font to automatic, and removing the underline.
- Repeat the above step for the footnotes, and for any hyperlinks in italics.
- Find a chapter heading in the document, and again choose "Select Text with similar formatting".
- Right-click on the Heading 1 style and choose "Update to Match Selection". That will ensure your chapter headings appear in your TOC.
- Repeat the step above for level 2 headings, if desired.
- If your document has a Table of Contents, you can delete it (the links no longer work, anyway). Replace it with a Word TOC, by clicking on the References tab and choosing "Table of Contents". The style doesn't matter, but I prefer a custom TOC with "show page numbers" deselected. If you want to show
- Save your document.
That's it! The whole process should take less than 10 minutes.
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You are a champ, Mark Barnes.
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Thanks, Mark! Great summary and video.
FWIW - maybe I've just had bad luck, but I've found that I won't get a fully native Kindle Table of Contents, even having applied Heading 1, 2, etc., unless I actually create a Word "table of contents" at the very end of the document.
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Thanks so much for sharing Mark. It will offer hope to many.
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I don't have a kindle yet, but I will when Amazon create a bigger kindle. So, this is great!
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Has anyone tried this on a Mac? If I type "Page i-9999" in the reference box and press enter, I get no response, and I can't get the send to kindle printer to show any paper size bigger than A4 in Logos.
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Does this method preserve internal footnote functionality where footnotes in the text on the Kindle appear as clickable links that display the footnote as a popup? I understand links to external resources won't work, I just really like how the footnotes currently work.
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danwdoo said:
Does this method preserve internal footnote functionality where footnotes in the text on the Kindle appear as clickable links that display the footnote as a popup? I understand links to external resources won't work, I just really like how the footnotes currently work.
Yes, it preserves footnotes.
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Mark this video is very, very helpful. I (and many others) truly appreciate you taking the time to make it.
Thank you.
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Fr Devin Roza said:
FWIW - maybe I've just had bad luck, but I've found that I won't get a fully native Kindle Table of Contents, even having applied Heading 1, 2, etc., unless I actually create a Word "table of contents" at the very end of the document.
You're right — this does seem unreliable, and creating a Word TOC seems to be the answer.
I've found that it doesn't need to be at the end of the document. You can replace the TOC at the beginning of your document instead. I'll see if I can edit that into the video!
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I can still download those files from Amazon without a problem. Not from the first page you see, but if you click on "All Files" and then My Send-to-Kindle docs. Does that not work for you?
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Absolutely brilliant Mark. Many thanks, I've always wanted to know how to quickly reformat TOCs in Word like that
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Liam said:
Mark will the hyperlinks to preferred Bible translations in the Bible references still show up as footnotes as they did with the send to kindle feature when using this method?
No, unfortunately.
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James McAdams said:
Has anyone tried this on a Mac? If I type "Page i-9999" in the reference box and press enter, I get no response, and I can't get the send to kindle printer to show any paper size bigger than A4 in Logos.
Im also on a Mac. Im having issues with this as well. I don't think the printer size feature has ever worked for me, and is something that Logos has yet to implement for the Mac version. It has always had no options. The page count works sometimes, but for very large resources it lags painfully slow. I waited forever for Matthew Henry's commentary this morning and ended up just giving up on it.
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Liam said:
I don't think the printer size feature has ever worked for me, and is something that Logos has yet to implement for the Mac version.
Does this help? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18619?locale=en_US
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Mark Barnes said:Liam said:
I don't think the printer size feature has ever worked for me, and is something that Logos has yet to implement for the Mac version.
Does this help? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18619?locale=en_US
Mark, in Logos I was able to get the basic sizes to show up by installing "send to kindle" and setting it up. As for the Mac settings menu, mine is a bit different than the one linked here, and I have many options in it to choose from. My problem is that even when I select them from settings, none of the larger than average options show in Logos for some reason.
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Is there a way to filter the library to only show resources that have not been sent to kindle? Or can we automatically create a collection of not sent-to-kindle resources?
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Jim Poulsen said:
Is there a way to filter the library to only show resources that have not been sent to kindle? Or can we automatically create a collection of not sent-to-kindle resources?
No, sorry.
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Mark,
Thank you very much for making the time to create the video. I haven't used the Logos Send to Kindle feature as much as others have, but it was very convenient and I'm sorry it's being removed. Having seen your video however takes much of the bite out of the loss of this feature in Logos for occasional users. It's nice to know there is still a way to get the job done. [:)]
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Thanks for taking the time to make and explain this. Losing the send to kindle feature is a huge bummer, this is a great help.
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Liam,
I was able to get A2 paper size to show up in Logos for Mac by installing an Epson SPro 3880 driver (even though I don't have that printer). I setup a dummy printer in OS X and then selected it in Logos.
Jeremy
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How did you install the driver, exactly? Thanks!
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Search for the driver and download it from the Epson website. It will be a pkg file. After the driver is installed add a new printer through OS X and point it to any IP address and manually select the printer model as Epson spro 3880.
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Thanks, Jeremy. I didn't know to set it up with a fake IP. Works perfectly.
ALSO, for those on Mac who are not getting the pages to update to the selected pages. Try this:
1. Make sure the notch is in the "Use these sections" circle and something is checked.
2. In the Page Box, input your page criteria "i-9999" or whatever.
3. THEN, click on the notch next to the box. It SHOULD update then. That's what worked for me.
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Can't figure out how to edit my last post, but I tried my own method again and it didn't work.
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If you enter the page numbers and then click back to one of the other selections and then back to the page number radio button it will sometimes update. However in order to get it to select the indexes in one book I had to use the section selection and just pick all of them including the indexes. It wouldn't get the indexes via page number.
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