Guitar Tablature on the Amazon Kindle?

by Dave on August 26th, 2008

6 Comments

If you are anything like us here at Fretbase, you are regularly printing tablature from a variety of different websites.  Once printed, you immediately attempt to play those tabs on your trusted guitar.  So far so good.

But then it gets ugly.  After being played, that tablature can end up anywhere – often in piles with other tablature that makes finding your original printout so difficult that you end up just printing another copy – and then the process repeats.

Lately we’re wondering whether this could be solved with Amazon’s Kindle.  It is portable and displays text and images clearly on its screen.  Couldn’t we get our guitar tablature delivered directly to the Kindle the same way we get songs directly on our iPods?  It sounds like a killer app to us.

Have you tried getting tablature on a Kindle?  Please let us know about it in the comments.

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Comments:

  1. Paul – November 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    I think this is a great idea, and a wonderful use for a Kindle.

  2. Dave – November 30th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Me too. Still, I haven’t heard of anybody offering this. Just a matter of time I think…

  3. Dave – November 30th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    I should add that I just found some discussion on this on Amazon:

    http://www.amazon.com/storing-guitar-tabs-kindle-from/forum/FxBVKST06PWP9B/TxYQHVF6S7G3AX/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B000FI73MA

  4. TJ – February 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    I’m waiting for a friend to pass on their Kindle V1 and then I’ll load it with guitar tabs. Since the Kindle can be used to display PDFs, I think it’ll be possible to produce a single PDF of all my tabs — load in on the Kindle and rock n roll (pun intended). Visit socialmeteor.com to see what happened….I’ll blog about it.

  5. Patrick Connolly – June 10th, 2011 at 8:09 am

    Really surprised that a startup hasn’t latched onto this idea and created a service like Instapaper for tablature… Instapaper has a bookmarklet that you add to your bookmark bar, and whenever you see a long article that you don’t want to read on the screen, you click the bookmarklet and it sends it to instapaper. And every day it send you a new “customized newspaper” with all the articles you clicked, in the form of Kindle’s “subscription” document.

    How sweet would that be for guitar tabs? I can even imagine a situation where the ASCII text is parsed into a more attractive format. :)

  6. Lee Campbell – June 27th, 2011 at 10:13 am

    I have managed to get this tab (http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_living_end/all_torn_down_ver3_tab.htm) to look great on my Kindle. I will try to generalise the manual solution I applied so that it can be automated. ie You should be able to point to a tab (site, file etc) and generate a kindle format book for it.

    Will comment back if I get any success.
    Lee