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  • Your Kindle, PDFs, EPUBs, file and format conversion and you

    There are two irritations when it comes to the Kindle. First of those is  your collection of PDFs you bought or own that you’d like to read as a ‘book’ on the Kindle (without going through the whole long USER@[free.]kindle.com) email and Whispernet delivery process. The other is the EPUB Sony Book reader format files that you have — but that the Kindle doesn’t interpret. Here’s how to get around this. (more…)

  • Dump MS Access data from Ubuntu

    The mdbtools package for Ubuntu Jaunty includes a command called mdb-export.  This allows you to dump the contents of tblName from database.mdb to STDOUT in CSV format like this:

    mdb-export database.mdb tblName

    Output redirection to capture the output in a file is also supported (not that that’s a feature of the app, as you know):

    mdb-export sample.mdb tblFoo > capture.txt