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service update
.. experience outage Sunday December 11; forced reboot by AWS which yours truly was not quite on top of, should be fine now.
Notable in passing: in Memoriam Michael S. Hart
Founder of Project Gutenberg Obituary:
Phew!
Finally tweaked the site so that the “new” method of directly fetching books from books.google.com is the default/standard way of doing conversion. The original download/upload interface remains available at http://www.retroread.com/gbif/ Enjoy and please advise if there are any issues!
Still here
… things have been a bit quiet here and also, RetroRead update-wise. Pleased to see things are apparently (plus or minus an Amazon EC2 blackout) running pretty smoothly, in particulalry with “Retro Rocket”. I hope everyone is using this, it … Continue reading
Thousands of Titles!
… Retroread can now lay claim to hosting “thousands” of converted Kindle titles, the recent “blitz” of conversions by the “Schlegelphile” out there has pushed the title count to over 2000! I love it when someone finds a trove of … Continue reading
RetroRocket – conversion the way it was meant to be
OK, this is how I always wanted the RetroRead experience to be — you simply point at a search result on Google, and bam! it’s converted, all in the background, no file downloading. It’s a little tricky, particularly since Google … Continue reading
Are there a few beta testers out there?
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on the “next step” in the RetroRead service — the ability to directly move books from Google into the conversion workflow, without having to download them to your desktop. It’s pretty … Continue reading
How to video on YouTube
Just posted a walk-through video of the flow of searching, downloading, uploading, and editing of a Google epub through RetroRead into Kindle format. Hope it encourages more users to take the plunge and do some of their own conversions! It’s … Continue reading
Feed Happy
Recently we added an option to allow others to view your personal library at a custom RetroRead url. (/mylibrary/myusername). Now for those who care to share, your personal library page (if you have one) now sports an RSS feed (you … Continue reading
