I was wondering if you could read your compendium content on a kindle. I have searched the forums a bit but have not seen anything on this. I read you can use a kindle fire, which makes sense as a tablet... good find, as my room mate can now mess around with the campaign setting with me for test purposes. But I have an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and would like to use it to read through the module book I purchased. Since Twitch is owned by Amazon, I thought this might be a possibility. Is this a thing? Or is there any discussion or plans on making it a thing?
Thank you in advance and I apologize if this is spoken about somewhere else.
D&D books historically, and currently, rely on a LOT of color illustrations and color-coded data tables -you would lose much of that in translation. The amount of time and trouble required to convert everything for such an incredibly niche device wouldn't be worth the time of doing it.
You MIGHT be able to access your content via the web browser on the device, but even that is severely limited in function.
The Paperwhite just isn't designed for this content, and is used by such a comparatively small audience that it wouldn't be wise to completely rework their content, from a cost/benefit perspective.
To be clear, none of this is intended to be insulting or "nasty", it's just an explanation of why the device isn't likely to work for D&D Beyond.
I'd agree with the OP. Its just nice to read your adventures on an ebook reader as they tend to be quite long. I'd imagine reading the COS module in the tub or TOA at the beach to be quite invigorating in this time of crisis.
So, in principle there are two ways to read on a kindle:
Via the Browser: Does not work since you are not able to login to dndbeyond.com via the Kindle's browser. I hope there'll be a fix some day but I won't hold my breath.
Via an ebook: Does work but you probably won't get any official ebooks from dndbeyond (@dndbeyond correct me if I'm wrong). But don't cry (yet).
What you could do is convert an adventure on your own. You'd probably would do each chapter seperately as they are quite heavy due to all the images. Copy, paste the HTML and convert (e.g. via pandoc). I have NEITHER checked the terms and conditions NOR do I know where you live so converting on your own may or may not be legal. In Germany, where I live, you have a right to do security backups for all your content as long as you don't publish it. But I'm just a tech-guy so don't quote me on legal stuff.
Two more details:
There are other sources on the internet. I won't link them and do not advice to use (probably) illegal sources.
Don't use MOBI as your ebook format on your kindle but AZW3 as MOBI does not support all feature you'd need to convert the content.
@dndbeyond if you are in fact willing to publish feel free to contact me for a kick-start.
I was wondering if you could read your compendium content on a kindle. I have searched the forums a bit but have not seen anything on this. I read you can use a kindle fire, which makes sense as a tablet... good find, as my room mate can now mess around with the campaign setting with me for test purposes. But I have an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and would like to use it to read through the module book I purchased. Since Twitch is owned by Amazon, I thought this might be a possibility. Is this a thing? Or is there any discussion or plans on making it a thing?
Thank you in advance and I apologize if this is spoken about somewhere else.
A Kindle Paperwhite?
D&D books historically, and currently, rely on a LOT of color illustrations and color-coded data tables -you would lose much of that in translation. The amount of time and trouble required to convert everything for such an incredibly niche device wouldn't be worth the time of doing it.
You MIGHT be able to access your content via the web browser on the device, but even that is severely limited in function.
The Paperwhite just isn't designed for this content, and is used by such a comparatively small audience that it wouldn't be wise to completely rework their content, from a cost/benefit perspective.
To be clear, none of this is intended to be insulting or "nasty", it's just an explanation of why the device isn't likely to work for D&D Beyond.
to get it to work on a kindle, it would require a PDF file or an EPUB file, which is not available for the books to my knowledge.
"Shadow Hide You..."
Yeah.... No. They're definitely not available in that format.
It COULD be converted, but the tiny user base who would want such a thing wouldn't justify the time investment.
I'd agree with the OP. Its just nice to read your adventures on an ebook reader as they tend to be quite long. I'd imagine reading the COS module in the tub or TOA at the beach to be quite invigorating in this time of crisis.
So, in principle there are two ways to read on a kindle:
What you could do is convert an adventure on your own. You'd probably would do each chapter seperately as they are quite heavy due to all the images. Copy, paste the HTML and convert (e.g. via pandoc). I have NEITHER checked the terms and conditions NOR do I know where you live so converting on your own may or may not be legal. In Germany, where I live, you have a right to do security backups for all your content as long as you don't publish it. But I'm just a tech-guy so don't quote me on legal stuff.
Two more details:
@dndbeyond if you are in fact willing to publish feel free to contact me for a kick-start.
DDB has their own free app you can download and download all of you purchased content onto that for offline reading.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
I'm currently using an amazon fire 7, and it isn't possible to get the ddb app, because that's only available on google play.
I'm really hoping it's possible to download the books from the site onto the device, but so far I'm having a hard time of it.
It is not possible to download the books anywhere except the DDB app.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting