Add "Send to Kindle"

[tobiasdiez]

It would be nice if one could simply right-click a linked file and send it to one's kindle.

Stragegy:

• Preferences: Add Kindle email
• Add context menu action next to "Send to email" - "Send to kindle"
• That action creates an email targeted to the Kindle email of the user (using the default email program) - https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/35cd5d03e106c102b9d2aad3dbd54038ddc2728a/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/SendAsEMailAction.java

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(The procedure for calibre is outlined here: https://www.howtogeek.com/539829/how-to-transfer-any-ebook-to-kindle-using-calibre/)

Strategy:

• Convert files to supported format (e.g. epub to mobi) (epub is supported now)
• Send email to amazon kindle with attachment

This needs a bit of preparation on the user's side:

• Need to download and install KindleGen (amazon's license doesn't allow distribution)
• Add their kindle e-mail in JabRef's preferences. Moreover, we need a way to send an email. @koppor would it be easy to run a smtp for this? If not the user also needs to specify the smtp data of their email.
• Update Send an Email using JabRef's feature

[koppor]

To prevent that our SMPT server is mis-used for spam, I think of following steps:

1. Setup "JabCloud" ("CloudRef"?) offering this service
2. Force users to create an account there to have this functionality
3. Enable accounts in JabRef

Then JabRef connects to JabCloud and allows then conversion to Kindle.

[Siedlerchr]

I am against running an open smtp server. This is dangerous and invites spamming.
I would simply enable the configuration of an smtp account in the setting where a user can enter his own email details

[tobiasdiez]

The smtp server can be secured by a passwort that will be integrated into JabRef via a Github secret. I think from a user's perspective this is the easiest solution although the other approaches (cloudref account, own smtp server) work too.

[LuVogel]

We got a question about converting files using Calibre. Since Calibre is written in python, we're looking for a possibility to use these python-functions in our java project. Is there any option? The user have to install Calibre and set the directory path in the jabref preferences, so JabRef can use Calibre to convert the files.

[Siedlerchr]

@LuVogel Calibre seems to have a command line interface. This can be called from JabRef. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/cli-index.html So your approach would work

See for example in the PushToExternalAplpication how JabRef can call other tools on the command line or in the JabRefDesktop implementations