Kindle to pdf / jpg / etc
July 25, 2015 2:50 PM Subscribe
Whats the best way to get a Kindle children's picture book into a format that I can display in Google Slides or PowerPoint?
I have a few Kindle children's books that I've purchased to use in my elementary music classroom on my projector. In the past I've used the kindle cloud reader but I would like to get them into Google Slides. I have been viewing the books full screen, taking screenshots, cropping, then inserting these images into a presentation. The books are fewer than 20 pages, so the number of images isn't a big deal - but I don't think I'm getting the highest quality image, and the cropping is a pain.
These books do have embedded text (like other ebooks) but the text is also shown on the illustrated page, the way you might look at it in a real book. Obviously in interested in having the projected image be as good as possible.
What is the best way to remove the drm (I own these and am using them for my own purposes) and then get that into a .pdf or set of images?
I have a few Kindle children's books that I've purchased to use in my elementary music classroom on my projector. In the past I've used the kindle cloud reader but I would like to get them into Google Slides. I have been viewing the books full screen, taking screenshots, cropping, then inserting these images into a presentation. The books are fewer than 20 pages, so the number of images isn't a big deal - but I don't think I'm getting the highest quality image, and the cropping is a pain.
These books do have embedded text (like other ebooks) but the text is also shown on the illustrated page, the way you might look at it in a real book. Obviously in interested in having the projected image be as good as possible.
What is the best way to remove the drm (I own these and am using them for my own purposes) and then get that into a .pdf or set of images?
Best answer: Calibre should strip the images into individual jpgs for you. There's an edit tab in Calibre that lets you view them one by one. I've never played around with text in the edit window, but I assume it's similarly straightforward.
posted by phunniemee at 4:49 PM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by phunniemee at 4:49 PM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thanks strenmeyer and phunniemee - I did a combination of your two tips and it worked great. I installed the Calibre de-drm plugin and then was able to extract the jpgs manually from Calibre.
Then (and I already knew how to do this part, but in case The Internet wants to know), I made a folder with each image and used the Powerpoint create album feature to put them all in a presentation. Finally, I uploaded them to Google Drive and converted them to Google Slides files.
All in all each one took less than 10 minutes, and now I have my kids books in the same format as the rest of my teaching visuals, which makes lesson planning FUN AND EASY. Or at least that's what I'm hoping it will do.
posted by rossination at 4:40 PM on July 26, 2015
Then (and I already knew how to do this part, but in case The Internet wants to know), I made a folder with each image and used the Powerpoint create album feature to put them all in a presentation. Finally, I uploaded them to Google Drive and converted them to Google Slides files.
All in all each one took less than 10 minutes, and now I have my kids books in the same format as the rest of my teaching visuals, which makes lesson planning FUN AND EASY. Or at least that's what I'm hoping it will do.
posted by rossination at 4:40 PM on July 26, 2015
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posted by Sternmeyer at 3:04 PM on July 25, 2015 [2 favorites]