Kindle online formating Framework or Tool can be used for web application?

Question

This is my first time to post a question in here at stackoverflow:

I'm currently research on Kindle online formating,I have seem couple websites that currently support online kindle format, e.g.

http://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/

I know there is desktop application like "Calibre" and "Kindlegen" But, not sure how to implement it through a web service。 I was wondering if anyone knows there exists some framework or tools that can be implemented like that,I will be really appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

If you're on Rails, you can use the kindlegen gem for installing kindlegen, then use that to convert to MOBI files (which is what we ended up doing). We also looked into installing the command-line calibre tools, but couldn't get it working on CentOS 5.8.