Publishing to Amazon: Questions About Conversion
I've read through the forum quite a lot and definitely learned a lot in the process. I have some questions that I am not totally sure about, though. I wrote my e-book (it's an e-cookbook) in Sigil and...
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Reader for Mac/PC problem
Hello, everyone. I'm hoping someone here can help me with this. I have a book with chapters that start with illuminated letters and a paragraph of hand-drawn text that has been scanned in as a complete...
View ArticleChinese Dictionaries from Amazon
I have had a Paperwhite for some time now, and an I-phone both of which I have some of my e books on. Recently acquired a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mobile 'phone and spent quite a while attempting to put some...
View ArticlePage Numbers - Kindle
When I create and open the Sigil ebook in Kindle Fire Previewer, It automatically starts on the third page, which is actually showing as page 17. How do I get it to start on the cover page? For some...
View ArticleNEED Help! tagging
Hi, Anyone here knows any program where I can do automation for <idx:entry> tagging. I have 4000 word entries to tag and Its crazy to tagged it manually. From this code: <p...
View ArticleAmazon Samples
I have noticed that some samples on Amazon's preview show the separate pages. Others run everything together. These two for example: http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-With-S...cing+with+Siva And this one...
View ArticleFile size for kindle..delivery charge
Hi All I have an epub of about 8MB, which I convert to .mobi by kindlegen. In the terminal message generated by kindlegen it says 'approximate KF8 deliverable file size 7708 KB'. Is this the size that...
View ArticleNeed Help Epub To MOBI
Hi, I have Epub file with Social DRM on it. I am trying to convart the file to mobi with Kindle Previewer, but I get this massage: ************************************************** *********** Amazon...
View ArticleCreate mobi file with notes.
Hi! What I would like to do is to create a Mobi file, where certain words (determined by a python script or something) have a note attached to them, to aid in language learning. Is this doable, and if...
View ArticleKindle fixed layout file size too big
I'm working on a Kindle Fixed Layout for someone, I have the pages as images cropped and dropped in html pages. The .mobi is supposed to be 323 pages but I did a draft of 150 pages and the file is...
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Please Help Me Test My File
I'm developing ebooks in Bangla, an Indic language not supported by Kindle. (Jeez, I don't know how many threads I have on this topic!). I've embedded the font and generated a test file which is...
View ArticleWhy won't image resize when in Kindle DX
Hi there, Not sure if this has been discussed before. I did have a look through many threads but couldn't find anything. I have one problem in that i use an image as a scene break in my book which i...
View ArticleKindle for Android Phone
Hi!! I have an android phone with the Kindle app. I down loaded some books and graphic novels. I tried to move them over to my kindle for PC, but i get a message that they are invalid file types......
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A bit of css help for a Kindle Fixed template
I have a nice Kindle Fixed Template, I created a .mobi file using images of a pdf converted to jpgs for the pages. reason was the InDesign file used 10 different fonts and I needed the layout to look...
View ArticleNewbie questions
I have a book in docx format. I converted it to PDF. I've tried to convert it to MOBI and while it works, sort of, it's not good. Perhaps the converter I used are defective or old or my format isn't...
View ArticleUpload to KDP
My book is now almost finished.....thanks to all on this forum who have helped along the way. I have some questions on the upload to KDP process. 1. When I convert the .epub file to .mobi using...
View ArticleBaskerville Font not appearing on Kindle e-ink
I wonder if anyone can help with this anomaly on embedded fonts. I have embedded a number of fonts including Baskerville into an ebook. All the fonts appear fine on the epub version and also with the...
View ArticleProblems with Covers on eBooks & Kindle
Apologies if this has been addressed already. I searched and found people having one of these problems, but not all of them together. I exported an epub file from InDesign, then cleaned it up in Sigil...
View ArticleConflict between regular links and Kindle's new inline footnote feature
The 5.44 software update for the Kindle PW (1st gen) has a nice new inline footnote feature: by tapping the footnote link it allows you to read the complete footnote text inline without changing the...
View ArticleMedia Queries for images as dropcaps in Kindle DX
You can insert images as dropcaps in KF8, and float the text around it. I have just realised that it is not only Kindles 1 and 2 that don't support KF8 but the much more recent Kindle DX as well. So my...
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