Awesome Kindle

A collection for awesome reposities that helps with Amazon Kindle.

Suggestions and contributions are welcome.

Software

• Koreader - An ebook reader app running on kindle.
  • KindlePdfViewer - A PDF viewer on Koreader.
• PageDrop - Android app that sends books over Wi-Fi to jailbroken Kindles running KOReader.

Ebook Tools

Manager

• Calibre - A famous ebook manager.
• Kindle-highlights - A Ruby gem for collecting your Kindle hightlights.
• kindle2notion - A program to copy all your Kindle highlights and notes to a page in Notion.
• Kindle Highlights Exporter - A browser-based tool to export Kindle highlights to Markdown, CSV, or JSON. 100% local, no upload required.
• marginalia - Turn handwritten Kindle Scribe notebooks (PDF) into Obsidian Markdown via local (Qwen3-VL/Ollama) or cloud OCR, with a side-by-side review step. Mirrors your Scribe folder structure.
• Lexpad (Website, not open source) - A vocabulary notebook with spaced repetition that imports the words you looked up on a Kindle (vocab.db) and highlights of up to four words from My Clippings.txt; AI can then add meanings and examples.

Generator

• ComicScissors - Splits comic & manga pages into panels and repacks them so they are readable on Kindle and other e-readers without zooming. CLI and Calibre plugin.
• KindleEar - An app to aggergate RSS for generating periodical mobi/epub file and send it automatically.
• RSS to Kindle (Website, not open source) - A hosted service to subscribe to RSS and Substack feeds and get the full articles delivered to your Kindle as a daily EPUB digest. Free for up to five articles a day.
• Briefing Service — Morning Paper (Website, not open source) - Hourly LLM-ranked news (AI, markets, sports, world) typeset as a multi-page PDF and delivered each morning by Send-to-Kindle or to reMarkable. Free PDF at /v1/briefings/ai/paper.pdf; delivery is $9/month.
• kdpbook.io (Website, not open source) - An AI book studio for Amazon KDP: describe a book in a chat or import a manuscript, and it builds a Kindle eBook (EPUB, reflowable or fixed layout) plus the paperback interior and full-wrap cover PDFs. 2,000 free credits at signup (watermarked exports); paid plans from $25/month.
• Easy Book Translation (Website, not open source) - Turns any EPUB into a bilingual (parallel-text) book: an AI translation is inserted under every paragraph, with names kept consistent and layout/images intact. Read it via Send-to-Kindle, Apple Books or Calibre. Free bilingual samples of public-domain classics; paid per book from $2.99.
• Kindle Comic Converter (Official) - A Python app to convert comic files to e-books.
• Kindle Comic Creator - Amazon official Kindle Comic Creator.
• KindleBookMaker - A kindle book generator whose data comes from uri contents, rss sources or local files.
• Kindlefodder - A Ruby framework and a collection of recipes for translating website-bound books and documentation into Kindle ebooks.
• zhihuToKindle - An app to send answers from zhihu.com.
• hcc - An online tool for convert Hcomic detail page's images into MOBI format e-books.

Others

• KindleUnpack - An app to unpack Amazon / Kindlegen generated ebooks.
• Kindle Clippings Cleaner - Remove duplicated entries from your clippings.txt for usage in third-party services like Readwise

Resources

• KindleHelper - A Windows app to download Chinese web fiction.
• Kindle_download_helper - A tool to download books from Amazon.
• SICP-kindle - The Kindle ebook of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition.
• geektime_dl - A tool to generate books from Geektime.
• Kindle Open Books - A tool to generate opensource books from Calibre recipes.

Others

• Kindle Weather Display (Achieved) - A tool to display weather only on Kindle.
• Kindle Side Card - A local-first KUAL side display for dashboards and desktop status.
• KindleHub - Free web page that turns a Kindle's stock browser into a home screen with 100+ e-ink games, 70,000 Project Gutenberg books, notes and other apps. No jailbreak, just bookmark the URL.
• KindleHub Device Pack - MIT-licensed KUAL extension that makes the stock browser fullscreen on a jailbroken Kindle, with power-button gestures, cover-only sleep and 229 redrawn UI icons.
• Inkwell - An Alpine Linux userspace for the jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 3 that runs on Amazon's kernel, with its own home screen, an offline chatbot that runs SmolLM2 through llama.cpp, Doom, the first version of Minecraft, a browser, notes, a sketchpad and SSH over USB.

Contribution Guidelines

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