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Mobi upload fail

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I converted a word file to Mobi with Calibre. It failed to be "processed" by Amazon (KDP). Alert says "There was a problem processing your file. Please check your file and try again."

Converted as a "New".

Any advice?

KP 3 shows TOC "not specified" in Book Info

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Hello, using Kindle Previewer 3 (latest v downloaded today).

KP3 converted the epub fine, and all looks good, except when I click View > Book Info and it lists a handful of variables compiled from the meta data, most say "specified" (good), but for Table of Contexts it says "no specified" (though NCX is specified).

Also "Start Reading" says "unspecified" though I am less concerned about that but would fix it if I knew how.

What do I need to add to the meta data for Kindle to see these as "specified", particularly the TOC?

TIA.

Image scaling best-practices

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Just use a width instruction in the html. I go width="100%" in most instances, and it works fine in Kindle and, from what I'm able to determine, in B&N and Apple etc as well.

Bearing in mind the old Kindles' habit of blowing up every image to full screen or the pixel dimensions, whichever is smaller, I am also conscious of the pixel dimensions of small images. Thus for my publisher's colophon I go width="15%" but also restrict the gif to 100x100 pixels. The result is not ideal on Kindle or Kindle 2 or DX, but it's okay.

Amazon Look Inside books, some work, some don't.

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I convert html to epub with Sigil.

The graphics are fine when viewing in a web browser, sigil, cloud reader, kindle previewer,
kindle online previewers etc.

In some ebooks the graphics work with 'Look Inside' and not with others,
even though the code is the same.

Gaps appear in the tables between the rows.

The diagram on the right is correct.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Stuck on 0% Reading Metadata and Adding to Library

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Attached is the debug log of the issue i'm experiencing. I purchased a Kindle book from Amazon (.azw file extension). When i attempted to add it to Calibre, the message "Reading Metadata and Adding to Library" was stuck on 0%.
I want to convert this file to .epub because although this book has an .azw extension, it's basically a pdf which is hard to read and i have to constantly zoom in to read anything. I also want no restrictions on copying text from the book. How can i resolve this? Thank you in advance.

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Breaking text between images

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I have been trying to get a block of images to float right and the text to break after each image. Not sure if this has been discussed before. There are tons of questions about floating images right and wrapping text, but I am having problems with short blocks of text and with all images the same size. Let me explain.

I have a list of authors for a book, 8 or so. Each one has an image that I float right and have the text set to the left. I use Sigil for code editing and all looks great in the app and when I view the pages on a phone in portrait mode. If I turn the phone landscape or view it on a tablet, some of the images align themselves on the same line side-by-side ignoring the text float.

What I want is if the text is shorter than the image height the next author text should start below the previous author image which creates white space under the text until the next image author starts.

Here is the coding for each author block.

<div id="_idContainer005" class="Author-photo _idGenObjectLayout-1">
<img class="_idGenObjectAttribute-4" src="../Images/3.Micah_Jackson.jpg" alt="The Rev. Dr. Micah Jackson"/>
</div>
<p class="Frontmatter_bios"><span class="writer-name">The Rev. Dr. Micah <a id="Jackson">Jackson</a></span> is the president of Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation. He is also a certified Daring Way Facilitator and a partner in Backstory Preaching. </p>
<div class="_idGenClearFloat">
</div>

CSS=
div._idGenObjectLayout-1 {
float:right;
margin:6px 12px 6px 12px;
}
img._idGenObjectAttribute-4 {
height:100.00%;
min-width:100%;
width:100.00%;
}
div._idGenClearFloat {
clear:both;
}
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I think I am just missing something simple but I can't figure it out.
Thank you

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Amazon KDP

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Schoen good day e-reader community, Wanted to know what an "imprint" is?
Or. I bought a German ISBN (German ISBN), and I also entered the number of the ISBN I received on KDP and on my imprint. Unfortunately, I do not know what I should type in the field "Imprint"?

* My guess as "Selfpublisher" (without a publisher), or on my imprint is
"Publisher: (name, last name)", vllt. should I enter this identity also with the box imprint?
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Traditional Chinese

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Version 3.29 of Amazon's Kindle Previewer was just released and the updated manual for that version has the following statement:

Quote:

1.6.2 Supported Export File Formats
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Kindle Previewer does not support export to .mobi or .azk when the language of the book is Arabic, Traditional Chinese, or one of the Indian languages. These languages are available only with Enhanced Typesetting features, and .mobi/.azk files do not support Enhanced Typesetting.
This is the first mention of Traditional Chinese that I have seen in the KDP literature. (Chinese is listed as a supported language, but I believe that refers to simplified Chinese.)

Is this something new or is it just something that I never noticed before?

Sigil for children's picture book

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Hello,
When I do my ebook with the Sigil, I can't make my pictures to look horizontal.
To clearly understand what I need, please take a look a picture in the attachment.
I know how to make it on my Kindle device, just change orientation but I want to make it in my ebook to be always horizontal.
Will appreciate for the advice.

Best

spacing problem in Kindle Mobi converted from rtf file

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Hi friends. I'm working on the creation of an ebook by exporting it in a rtf file to Kindle for conversion to mobi. The goal is to edit and polish the output for reading on Kindles.

I've managed to resolve a variety of formatting issues but don't see answers to this one in the forum.

The mobi file wants to respect the 8.5 x 11 standard page size by inserting line breaks in the words of the text at the page border, and page breaks where the 11 inch page would end. How to delete these large spaces?

I surmise I need to edit the 'page size' somewhere in the rtf format before exporting to Kindle for conversion.

I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Thank you.

Reflow language expansion

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I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Amazon recently greatly increased the number of languages that support Enhanced Typesetting (KFX format). Internally this is being called "reflow language expansion". I do not have a full list, but it appears that most of the 40 languages supported by KDP now support ET.

Most books for sale on Amazon in these languages now show "Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled" in their description. They download in KFX format on e-ink Kindles and the iOS/Android apps running the latest versions. They are not (yet) supported with ET in the latest version of Kindle for PC.

When trying to convert books using the most recent version of Kindle Previewer (1.29.1) most of these languages fail to produce Enhanced Typesetting. An internal error message states: "Enhanced Typesetting currently supports the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and the Indic languages Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarat, Marathi. Please validate that your content matches one of these languages." Hopefully the Previewer will be updated to include the new ET languages in the future. If/when that happens the KFX Output plugin for calibre should also be able to take advantage of this.

Looking at the html of a Kindle Create (kpf) file

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I'm playing about with Kindle Create, and I'd love to see the html I am,um, Creating. Is there any way to do that, short of actually publishing the book and then Unpacking it?

The book is a short one, about 20K words I think, and I was impressed that the published size is promised to be 0.3 MB with a download fee of 5 cents. That suggests that the html is not monstrous, doesn't it?

Drastic Size difference in AZW3 vs EPUB (Overdrive library)

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So I get a lot of books from the Overdrive library, and I assumed the Kindle and Adobe EPUB versions were the same quality, but I noticed a huge difference in sizes between AZW3 and EPUB for the same books. For instance, there's a book with lots of pictures that comes to roughly 270 megabytes in EPUB format, but it's AZW3 format is only 27 megabytes.

Is the kindle version extremely compressed or am I missing something?

Bookmark on Text Clicking - Possible?

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Hello there,

Here's what I wanna do: on Kindle, the reader clicks on a link - say, "click here to see notes at the end" - and, automatically, Kindle sets the actual page as a bookmark before redirecting the reader to the last pages.

Is this possible? Is there any way an eBook can work or interact with Kindle features?

Thanks.

TK

mobi created in Kindle Kids' Book Creator won't display on iPad

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I've prepared a picture book using Kindle Kids' Creator. It looks fine in Kindle Previewer on my PC

The customer has loaded it into the Kindle Reader app on his iPhone and complains that only the cover displays. All other pages are blank.

I can confirm this with the Kindle Reader app on an iPad.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

What are the reasons kindle previewer wont show the blue clickable link on a chapter?

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I made a thread in sigil:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=314714

But i'm trying to understand why kindle previewer is not showing a blue clickable hyperlink to the chapter in the toc? It shows greyed out but in sigil it shows a blue clickable link to the chapter....

What could be the reasons?

AZW3 vs EPUB capabilities

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I have a current gen paperwhite and I used to aquire overdrive ebooks in epub format, convert to mobi, and send them to my kindle in Calibre. Then, I read about how azw3 was more advanced than mobi for page layout/etc, so I started getting all my books in azw3/kf8 (being that I can't remove drm from kfx).

However, I later discovered there's a KFX output plugin in Calibre that can convert epub into kfx. Is it true that converting epub to kfx will give you "enhanced typesetting" on the kindle, and that using the original azw3 file won't? Basically, what I'm asking is, is it better downloading EPUB than AZW3? Does the EPUB have more features?

Thank you for your help!

AZW3 justified - ragged right

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The AZW3 of The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis is ragged right.

Since the ragged right Alignment page option is grayed out for AZW3 I've always assumed Kindles will always display AZW3 justified. So it looks like justification for AZW3 is a function of the book. Is this an attribute that is set in the AZW3 or is it done in the source CSS or HTML?

(I assume the ragged right in The 2020 Commission Report ... is in keeping with the government report conceit.)

Kindle Footnotes Dimmed

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Device: Kindle Oasis 1.
Book: Annotated Memoirs of General Grant by Elizabeth Samet.

Problem: the text of this ebook shows up fine - I can adjust within all parameters of the ordinary Kindle fonts, brightness, etc. without issue. However, the footnotes show up in a dimmed state - I can read them, but the darkness & contrast of the text are substantially reduced, to the point where it is an effort to read them.

I have had no luck researching this issue on the net. I suspect that it is a problem with the formatting of this particular book, since I don’t have the issue in any other ebook. And it doesn’t exist as a problem on the ipad version of the book.

My next move will be to see if I can finagle around the problem using caliber, but I’m hoping someone here has an idiot proof solution...

AZW3 Page-Break didn't work

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Hello guys!

I've researched a lot and tried so many ways, but I didn't find a way to use the CSS "page-break-before: always" property in a book in AZW3 format.

Does anyone knows if there is some limitation in AZW3 with that?

...my intention was to put a pageBreak() before each subchapter. The main chapters are already splitted in diferent .html files.
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