spikenet Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) I've just started to learn A10 now after spending lots of time on BS. As a nice chrissy present I got a Kindle so thought its time to format some useful docs in ebook format. 8 files including following subjects: (kindle.rar) Aerodromes Checklists 9 line brief RWR threats Ordnance Brevity codes glossary HOTAS commands Source Credit given where I could find the source of any info I took from elsewhere. PDF's (usually look ok in landscape mode): A10C cropped Manuals If you want PDF's on the kindle I suggest using BRISS to crop them, fantastic open source tool! edit: updated checklists to 1.1. Better formatting and added links to panel images at beginning of each section.kindle.rarcookie - 25th VFS Checklists v1.1.rar Edited February 14, 2012 by spikenet added link to briss 1
Spectre_USA Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Boo-yeah! I am getting a Kindle for my Birthday from my wife in a week. Will fire `em up and check `em out next weekend. Just what I was looking for... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] A tale of 2 hogs
Paco Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 Awesome!! I'm on my third Kindle and this will be great! Paco
dooom Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 as an aside... i love my kindle and simply view these docs as pdf on it but this will be much easier! Check out www.ebookr.com for a source of kindle books. $15 a month with no commitment and unlimited free downloads... i got most of my flight biography library this way. I just downloaded Stuka Pilot and a few others this morning. ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL
spikenet Posted January 13, 2012 Author Posted January 13, 2012 as an aside... i love my kindle and simply view these docs as pdf on it but this will be much easier! Check out www.ebookr.com for a source of kindle books. $15 a month with no commitment and unlimited free downloads... i got most of my flight biography library this way. I just downloaded Stuka Pilot and a few others this morning. pdf's are just to clumsy on the kindle, hope you find these docs more user-friendly! I had a look at ebookr after your comment, pretty disappointing, searched 5 books I have in my amazon wishlist, none showed up including Robin Olds classic. Maybe we can start a share thread for classic novels or reference books?
filtonflyer Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Great work mate, any chance of doing some more? Nick [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
spikenet Posted January 15, 2012 Author Posted January 15, 2012 Great work mate, any chance of doing some more? Nick Any suggestions?
filtonflyer Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Would the complete manual be to cheecky to ask for. :) Nick [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Diemos Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) Personally, I would suggest the operations parts of the manual... I love the history and general design sections, but I can peruse those full screen when I'm not flying. How about from Stores (from pg. 56) through Supplements (through pg. 666)? And I do like the idea of having a separate document for each section! *Pending ED approval, of course! ;) Edited January 21, 2012 by Diemos
hassata Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) Awesome! Many thanks man. Edit: Another shameless plug-Kindle owners please check out my book, link in my sig. Edited January 21, 2012 by hassata [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
spikenet Posted January 21, 2012 Author Posted January 21, 2012 Glad you find them useful. I'm not going to convert anymore of the manual. Its to time intensive and the cropped PDF is good enough. Creating a kindle book is dead easy with the orginal doc format, doing it from a PDF is not easy at all. Lets hope DCS either release a kindle friendly version or the doc file itself so the community can do it. cheers!
Diemos Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Glad you find them useful. I'm not going to convert anymore of the manual. Its to time intensive and the cropped PDF is good enough. Creating a kindle book is dead easy with the orginal doc format, doing it from a PDF is not easy at all. Lets hope DCS either release a kindle friendly version or the doc file itself so the community can do it. cheers! Can I ask where you found the information for converting PDF to Kindle? I'd be interested to find out if I might be willing to give it a shot... No promises, of course!
Lumper Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 There is a program I use to convert Kindle books to epub for my nook, Calibre is tne name of the program. Works great. Lumper ------------------------------------------- When the going gets tough, the smart cutout. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
spikenet Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 Yes, kindle uses mobi format which is a very basic version of HTML. Calibre works well at most conversions. I use word and just setup my headings for title, chapters etc. Works well but doing a whole book from PDF is alot of work. It is really simple to do from the original document files.
Rusty_M Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Would the complete manual be to cheecky to ask for. :) Nick The A10 manual works absolutely fine on the Kindle. Just drag and drop without conversion. It may not work well with all PDF's, but this one was fine for me. If it wasn't, I'd still be unable to fly. The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine! http://www.twitch.tv/rusty_the_robot https://www.youtube.com/user/RustyRobotGaming
RobC Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Thanks a lot for sharing, very helpful. +Repped ;) E: or not apparently, any reason I can't rep a post currently?
spikenet Posted February 14, 2012 Author Posted February 14, 2012 The A10 manual works absolutely fine on the Kindle. Just drag and drop without conversion. It may not work well with all PDF's, but this one was fine for me. If it wasn't, I'd still be unable to fly. Hi, yes I agree. Its even better when you crop it using BRISS. I have a bunch of short "how to's" I might release at some point. ie: bullseye offset, using markpoints as SPI's, SADL guide. All little technical doc's that I found I needed the deeper I dove into the sim! cheers
cgjimeneza Posted July 20, 2012 Posted July 20, 2012 Hello, Im gonna try to learn really DCS BS and A-10... anyone knows of apps like the one done for the Ipad for use with kindle? Im downloading the docs you put in and thanks!
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