I was looking for a cheap way to study flash cards. Well, cheap, and not bulky, e.g. not paper. How brilliant would it be if there was a simple app (or "Active Content") that I could purchase for a few dollars that would convert popular sites like FlaschCardExchange or Quizlet flash cards to the Kindle! So I searched...and searched....and searched.
Nothing. No one is doing this. So many folks are going for Kindle Fire, or have some other touchpad that have plenty of flash card options. Me, I just don't want to carry around that much entertainment, with that low of battery life. I love the E-ink Kindle BECAUSE it is less powerful, more focused, cheap, and has a gargantuan battery life.
So I created one. Well, I had one of my talented developers create one. It was functional in his first 8 hours of development. It's rough around the edges, but so extremely useful, it can't be overstated. This is an amazing way to study a never ending source of flash cards. Any flashcards you find on Quizlet.com can be exported immediatly to .mobi, and transferred right into your documents folder on your kindle. That's it!
Go here to use it: http://kindle-convert.bixly.com/
It's a free tool, so please send over a message if you enjoy using it. Currently, you can only use Quizlet flash cards, but later on I will probably add others, should the tool get popular.
Can someone please get excited about this? I am geeking out about it. This is easily the best method of studying on your E-ink Kindle. Otherwise, you are stuck buying the many one-off flashcard apps on the Kindle shop that are about $3 per subject, and not flexible.
Mary on 01/05/2012 11:43 a.m.
This is fantastic. I just got a Kindle Fire and am still figuring out how to use it, futzing around especially with various flashcard apps. This is simple and does exactly what I need. Thanks!
Sam on 01/19/2012 1:14 p.m.
Love It. I haven't even downloaded it yet, and I love it. I was just thinking about it this morning and poof, you did it.
Sara on 01/20/2012 5:45 p.m.
LOVE IT!!! Haven't even gotten my Kindle Touch yet, but I'm already loving this :D
One question though, can you shuffle through the flashcards? I don't mind if I can't, because I can definitely adjust since I can study on quizlet as well. The portability on e-ink is the awesome part.
Thank you soo much for creating this. I can't wait to use on an actual kindle. I'm going to test it out on the kindle app right now.
Anne on 01/22/2012 11:15 a.m.
I've held off buying a reader until now because I read relatively little fiction and until now so few books in my non-fiction areas of interest have been published in digital format. Also, because I read so many things in pdf format I've wanted to wait to get a reader that supports pdf without conversion hassles. I am seriously considering the Kindle Keyboard. I also use Quizlet for a number of types of learning, and so am thrilled that someone has produced this option! If I end up getting the Kindle I'll try this and let you know what I think. Kudos for your contribution.
Adam on 01/23/2012 12:16 p.m.
Sara,
Thanks for the kind words. We can't enable shuffling through the e-ink kindle since it's basically reading through the flashcards as it would a regular book. So, anything you can do with a regular kindle book, you can do with the flash cards, roughly.
Peace,
Brendan on 01/25/2012 1:16 a.m.
WOW You just made it this month? I am so lucky to have stumbled upon it! Thanks so much, freeware programmers like you truly make the world a better place!
Anne on 02/04/2012 8:33 a.m.
Got my Kindle and was eager to try this. But it isn't working for me. Knowing nothing about software programming, I can only tell you that it gives me a message that says "You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page." Can you tell me what to do from here?
Adam on 02/05/2012 5:37 p.m.
Hey Anne,
I think you just need to put in the export URL of the flashcard in question. Post the flashcard URL, or email it to me and I will see if it works for me.
Dondyzulu on 02/19/2012 5:28 p.m.
Could somebody help? I did the export and paste and convert but the window just flash and no .mobi file or any file is shown. Does anyone know why?
Adam on 02/20/2012 12:28 p.m.
Dondyzulu,
sounds like a browser setting. Have you tried in Chrome of FireFox?
Meggy on 02/21/2012 2:01 a.m.
this is the greatest!!! exactly what I was looking for--thanks so much!