

Before creating KKCM, I attempted to use the tool from Collegate. After running the Collegate tool, there were 350 books not assigned to any collection and "left" in the "Home" of the Kindle (this is 35 pages!). I tried for 2 hours to correct the errors made by the Collegate tool and I finished building this tool (My "home" has now 2 pages !).





In fact, the other Kindle managers were working properly with OLD Kindles.



...But the NEW Kindles have a different firmware (firmware v3.0.2 and above - since august 2010) that prevents these old tools to work any longer.



For example, the Colegate Manager, the Calibre plugins, Kindelabra are not working properly (some books are not properly assigned to collections).



KKCM is the only Kindle collection manager supporting all the Kindle releases/firmwares.



Before creating KKCM, I attempted to use the tool from Collegate. After running the Collegate tool, there were 350 books not assigned to any collection and "left" in the "Home" of the Kindle (this is 35 pages!). I tried for 2 hours to correct the errors made by the Collegate tool and I finished building this tool (My "home" has now 2 pages!).In fact, the other Kindle managers were working properly with OLD Kindles....But the NEW Kindles have a different firmware (firmware v3.0.2 and above - since august 2010) that prevents these old tools to work any longer.For example, the Colegate Manager, the Calibre plugins, Kindelabra are not working properly (some books are not properly assigned to collections).KKCM is the only Kindle collection manager supporting all the Kindle releases/firmwares.

I am a french speaking person that prefers to see Litt é rature rather that Litt e rature. This is even more important for people reading in cyrillic and greek.

(usually less than 2%)

i.e. the few books that are not properly handled by KKCM.

It might be caused by the Kindle hardware limitations because the refresh rate of the Kindle screen is rather low. I don't know exactly why it becomes so slow?!



Anyway, I personnaly think that, even for managing a small number of books, the original Kindle manager is too cumbersome.



I even recently discovered that I prefer to read on the Kindle than on paper!



Going back to "paper" books, I noticed the rather "sloppy" printing of my paper books (most of them are cheap "pocket" editions): No two letters were printed in exactly the same way! In opposition, on the Kindle, the "printing" is perfect: All characters are finely drawn on the page. Because of that, reading on the Kindle is more relaxing than reading on paper (I need less concentration).



After reading on a Kindle, going back to "paper" books is a little bit like going back to low resolution VHS tapes after watching high definition DVD movies!





I even recently discovered that I prefer to read on the Kindle than on paper!Going back to "paper" books, I noticed the rather "sloppy" printing of my paper books (most of them are cheap "pocket" editions): No two letters were printed in exactly the same way! In opposition, on the Kindle, the "printing" is perfect: All characters are finely drawn on the page. Because of that, reading on the Kindle is more relaxing than reading on paper (I need less concentration).After reading on a Kindle, going back to "paper" books is a little bit like going back to low resolution VHS tapes after watching high definition DVD movies!

It handles your books but also your audio files!

It's small (it's less than 1 MB!). Everything required to run the tool is inside the ZIP file. No need to install any cumbersome Python or Java virtual machine,... that are polluting your OS. You can thus copy KKCM on your internal Kindle memory to always have it with you.

It runs on all Windows OS (XP,Vista,Win7,...).

There are no dependencies on applications installed on the OS (no external tools or libraries are needed).

Simply double-click the "KKCM_dir2Collections.exe" file and it runs, all the time.



You can run it directly from the Kindle drive because KKCM is a "portable app": There are no modification to your OS. No bloatware installed.

Personnaly, I placed the KKCM tool inside the Kindle drive so that I always have it with me when I need to updates my collections.

It works without any internet connection, entirely locally.

You can create new collections even when the Kindle is not registred or with a jail-breaked kindle.

It's fast. You can process 2000 books in less than a minute.

There is a free version!

Download the Kranf Kindle Collection Manager

Kranf Kindle Collection Manager v0.15

(October 9, 2012) Free Version

DOWNLOAD HERE Plus Version



High Quality Kindle Collection Manager Engine New engine introduced in version v0.11 (June 4,2012). This new engine is a *lot* faster and even more robust than before!



Supported BOOK file types: mobi, prc, azw, tpz, asw, asw2, azw1, azw3, pdf, txt, zip, cbz.

Supported AUDIO file types: aax, aa, mp3. Possibility to Assign the same book to different Kindle collections and to Ignore specific collections. With the FREE version of KKCM you can assign one particular book to only one Kindle Collection.



It's very common to have a collection named "Current" that contains all the books that your are currently reading. The books inside the "Current" collection are usually also included into another collection, (the name of this other collection is typically based on style of the book: Thriller, Magazine, SF, etc.). The books inside the "Current" collection won't be handled properly by the FREE version of KKCM because they are currently assigned to several Kindle collections (KKCM will randomly assign these books to either the "current" collection OR to the other collection they belongs to).



How to solve this? Simply includes a ':' character inside the collections that you don't want to manage with KKCM. KKCM won't create any directory for a collection that has a ':' character inside its title. For example, your "Current" collection should be renamed (using your Kindle) "Current:". KKCM won't create any directory for the "Current:" collection.



To summarize: if a book is included into 2 collections "A" and "B", then one of the two collections must be renamed to include a ':' character (e.g. "B:"). Recurse in directories All the books that are inside the Kindle-collection named "Magazines>National Geographic" will be placed inside the directory "G:\documents\Magazines\National Geographic" (where "G:" is the drive letter assigned to the Kindle). Similarly, all the books inside the directory "G:\documents\Magazines\National Geographic" will be placed inside the Kindle Collection "Magazines>National Geographic".



Why? This is handy when you have all your books inside a set of directories in your main hard drive on your laptop. You can simply & rapidly copy/paste these "blocks" of directories to your kindle and find all your books properly classified on collections inside your kindle.



This is also handy when you are using Calibre because Calibre stores all the managed books inside a "nice" directory structure (based on author's names) that you can directly exploit using KKCM to create "nice" collection names. User-parameter-file The user-parameter-file allows you to change the ':' and the '>' characters to something else. It also allows you to change the number of backup files (*.collections.json.backup) that you want to keep.



The KKCM+ user-parameter-file also defines a small prefix (by default: the "_" character) that wil be added to all the collection's names. This is a request from one of the KKCM user. This user is displaying all its book in alphabetical order and wanted all the collections to appear first (therefore, we used the "_" prefix). You can also define a different prefix for AUDIO collections. Preserve collection-display-order When re-generating some new collections from directories, KKCM will keep the order in which the collections were displayed in the kindle (usually "last collections read" first). Free access to all future updates Upon purchase, you will receive an unlimited-time serial that you can use here to download at any time the latest version of KKCM Plus (Mac or PC). N/A Free Version

DOWNLOAD HERE Plus Version





What will I do with the money? I will buy a small Mac to create a Mac-version of KKCM !

The price of the PLUS version is 5 €.



If you like KKCM, you can create an URL-Link towards this page from your website (use this URL: http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/kindleCollectionManager.html). If you want to help other people use their Kindle in a smarter, funnier way, you can increase the visibility of this tool by adding a URL-link toward this page (so that its google-ranking increases !).



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Bonus: How to view your own photos on your kindle

Connect your kindle to your computer via a USB cable. Click on My computer and identify the Kindle as a removable device on your computer. Open the Kindle drive. You should see the "documents", "audible", "music" folders. Create a new folder and name it Pictures. Create some sub-folders inside this Picture folder, one for each group of pictures that you will upload on your kindle.

Only the subfolder names will appear inside the Kindle "Home" screen (and not the picture filename). Copy your pictures to the appropriate sub-folders with either the .jpg, gif, or .png format. Use a 600x800 px format. (and not 800x600!) Disconnect your Kindle from the computer. Go to your Kindle "Home" screen, press and hold ALT + Z until the Kindle recognizes the sub-folder that you created as a book and it appears on the screen. Use the select key to open and view the photos. Navigate your pictures using the following keys: q zoom in w zoom out e reset zoom c actual size f full-screen r rotate nav controller pan page forward and back images forward and backward

Bonus: Stop the Kindle "Indexing Service" (for advanced user only)

Root your device and open a shell. For K3 users: edit the text file "/opt/amazon/ebook/bin/start.sh".

For K4 users: edit the text file "/etc/upstart/framework". Search in the text the string "-DENABLE_SEARCH_INDEXING_THREAD=true" and replace it with "-DENABLE_SEARCH_INDEXING_THREAD=false".

I just bought a Kindle 4(NoTouch). This is a nice evolution of the K3. I especially like the increased speed & battery life.However, I noticed that the internal K4 memory is now limited to only 1.35GB. This is quite small to fit all my books!...Especially when there is an "indexing service" that keeps generating "garbage files" that consume the small amount of space left on the device! To disable the "indexing service" (and reclaim some space on the device!)(This operation is not for "beginners"):

Bonus: MobiHandler (from Alissa) allows you to see the picture cover, the author and the title of all your books directly inside the Windows File Explorer.

Bonus: A free Kindle book that summarizes all the documented and undocumented keyboard shortcuts for your kindle (only 3 pages). This makes a good, short reference book. You can see the content of this book here.

Bonus: A website explaining how to change the Kindle 3 screensaver images and how to change the Kindle 3 fonts (Even correctly documented, these are dangerous procedures because there is always a risk of destroying your Kindle). There is a new procedure to change without any risk the Kindle 3 fonts.

Bonus: For American users: you can download 2 totally free games for your Kindle (with free wireless delivery): Every Word and Shuffled Row.

Bonus: Super watertight bags that are quite cool to read in the bathroom with your Kindle.

Bye!

I hope you enjoy KKCM and the bonuses!Happy reading!Frank