Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2010/08/11/blender-wiki-as-ebook-in-kindle-format/

I found the Blender Wiki to read in .mobi format (on a Kindle for example) on this cool archive site

I’ve been looking for a good meaty book about Blender to read offline in Kindle format (I don’t actually have a Kindle, but I do have Mobipocket on my dear old Windows smart phone, and that uses the .mobi Kindle type file). I find that reading a manual from cover to cover while I’m travelling to work and back gives me a real insight into the things I’m finding out by learning by doing. It’s amazing how much stuff sticks. You find yourself with a problem using the software and suddenly remembering, “Oh, I read about this in the manual.”

I usually search for this type of material as a PDF and then convert it to .mobi, but I wasn’t having any luck with Blender. Noob to pro didn’t format well as a .mobi file for me. I use Calibre on Ubuntu to make my files and put them on the phone’s micro SD card. Blender Art Magazine also gets garbled when i try to turn it into a Kindle file. I had seen that the Blender Wiki was being made available to download as a PDF by a dedicated Blender fan (thanks to Blender Nation), but I couldn’t even get the PDF to download without being corrupted. A little more searching brought me to the archive site, and not only do they have the same file, they have a download link for a nicely formated .mobi file. I’m actually looking forward to my next tram ride to work.