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Admiral Nimitz's World War II operational diary posted online

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  1. Mehar

    Mehar Ace

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    http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2014/02/26/401492/Admiral-Nimitzs.htm
     
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    I think I'll download the whole works, if I can figure out how to get it onto a CD. Be great if I can get it to the Kindle!
     
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    Burn the complete PDF/PDFs to CD, most CDs are good for 700MB.

    As to getting it on your Kindle...Well...


    http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044412/convert-a-pdf-for-kindle-viewing-no-software-required.html

    Or you can download the open source program "Calibre"
    http://calibre-ebook.com/
    FAQ for converting
    http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from
     
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I haven't been able to access the diary on Firefox. Should I be using IE?
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Thanks Takao, I thought I could but it's been a while since I've used the amazon/kindle site. I'll give it a go when I'm feeling brave.

    Firefox worked for me Lou;

    I copied the link www.usnwc.edu/graybook and this came up;


    Click a link to open the PDF for a single volume in a new window.
    Login or Register to download the full PDF (659MB) for volumes 1-8.

    But be careful there's a lot of reading to be had :)
     
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    Thanks. I could login on IE and see the links, but they never opened. The links you have seem to work. For some reason, Firefox just showed a blank screen with headings. Must be a setting, but I'm too lazy to look for it. I'm going to try to put this on my nook for later reading.
     
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    Four thousand pages!!!! OMG!!!!! That's approx. three pages a day... Didn't he have, like, a war to fight?

    I suppose it just goes to show what you can do when you're stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean, with only hairy dudes for company...
     
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    When you look at it you'll notice that Chet did some editing, at least on the early entries, and initialled the page.
    Bill
     
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    I managed to download the diary to my computer. I pet some on my nook, but man does it take up a lot of space. I'll do some reading later.
     
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    It fits nicely on a CD and now I've got something to read at work during lunch.
    Bill
     

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