I have a 50mb pdf that I want to read on my kindle. I cannot use the email to whispersync bridge that amazon provide as the 50mb attachment is too large.
I tried to connect the kindle to my linux laptop and apart from the kindle charging there was no recognition in KDE that I had plugged a device in. A quick google later discovered that the kindle uses the MTP protocol rather than Mass Storage Device Class protocol like most other USB devices. Installing MTP support is easy:
sudo apt-get install mtpfs
Plugging in the kindle now gets KDE all excited and allows me to view the content.
Except after unmounting the kindle I couldn't see the PDF on the menu screen. I re-attached my kindle to the computer and could see the file still there, so why didn't the kindle like it. The file I copied was called:
10_PRINT_121114.pdf
After renaming it to:
Print Code.pdf
It started to show on the kindle screen. All I can think of is that the kindle doesn't like files that either start with a numeric or have a '_' character in their names. After some more renaming I can conclude:
The kindle doesn't like underscore characters in file names. I ended up just changing the "_" to a " " and everything works fine now.
For those interested the book I am copying to the kindle is called:
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
From 10print.org. This book tells the story of computer code in society and culture through the lens of a single line of C64 basic code.
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