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barretlee/kindleBookMaker
Kindle Book Maker with KindleGen, Make Book from RSS/single URL/directory and so on.
A Node.js CLI that converts RSS feeds, single URLs, or local HTML files into .mobi books for Kindle, using Amazon's old KindleGen binary. Aimed at people who want to batch-download web content for offline reading on a Kindle device.
Ships KindleGen binaries for Darwin, Linux, and Windows so there's no separate install step. The three ingestion modes (RSS, single URL with CSS selectors, local directory) cover most real use cases. The CSS selector approach for scraping is explicit and debuggable rather than magic heuristics.
KindleGen was deprecated and removed by Amazon in 2022, which makes the core pipeline dead on arrival unless you already have a copy stashed somewhere. Last commit was 2022 and nothing in the code addresses the KindleGen removal. The push-to-Kindle feature is broken and acknowledged as such in the README. Email credentials for push2kindle are stored in plaintext in the config file.