what image size for Kindle Book?
I am publishing a Kindle book that is mostly images. One image would fill the whole screen. What image size should I use to enable best view on Kindle device and smartphones and iPad tablets?
View ArticleTransferring "Real Page Numbers"
I'm looking for a thread that will walk me through how to maintain the "real page numbers" from kindle books. Thanks so much. jmm
View ArticleCreator Is it possible to display different meanings of a word in a dictionary?
I'm trying to create an English-English dictionary. And using the following codes ( in the HTML file): Code: <idx:orth>think <idx:infl> Â Â <idx:iform value="thinks"/>...
View ArticleKDP Publishing: Two cover images ?
Hi, I realise there is a lot of discussion all over the place on kindle cover dimensions and I have had to go through a lot of it myself this week as I am self publishing my first eBook on KDP this...
View ArticleBasic CSS not working in Kindle iOS App
I have some really simple CSS styles that work fine in the Kindle preview software, and on my actual Kindle Paperwhite, but when I send it to my iPad/iPhone and use the Amazon Kindle App, they don't...
View ArticleKids' Book Creator
So is the newly-announced Kindle Kids' Book Creator anything different to Kindle Comic Creator?
View ArticleImages going from ePub tu mobi or azw3 format
Hello!! i would first like to say i'm not an expert on format and creating ebooks. I downloaded a book which is hard to find in an electronic format and it was on ePub, the book has many images and...
View ArticleAttaching notes and bookmarks to a mobi file
I realised I have quite a few notes and bookmarks after only a couple of weeks of using my newly got old Kindle. And I would like to have them somehow sticked. I don't want to change the file if...
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New Kindle Word Wise feature
Apparently, Amazon is planning to introduce a new feature, Word Wise, which will display definitions for SAT vocabulary words above a word. At first glance, this looks like a <ruby> tag...
View ArticleMobi - Text justification in Tables
I want to edit a kindle book containing a large number of tables with justified text. The text alignment has been set in the CSS by giving a class to the td tag. The text appears justified on Kindle...
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Text alignment in Hebrew
When I convert a validated epub3 to mobi using KindlePreviewer I get two results, one in Calibre which is the correct form where the text is aligned to the right and another result in mobi where the...
View ArticleMOBI without TOC.xhtml
I've noticed that Kindlegen will barf if I don't include TOC.xhtml in my eBook. So I've been putting it in with a nice table of contents for years. A client wants to NOT have a contents page in his...
View ArticleCross References
I'm building an ebook in the azw3 format using calibre's editor. It's a reference book with substantial cross references and the fact that the different text files are all named "part####.html" is...
View ArticleA bug in Mobi - ebook
We are trying to create an ebook Mobi format but have run into a bug that we just simply can not find a solution to. Error description: Text in the sample should say - "Text" But only the letter T is...
View ArticleKBC format not working on iPad?
Hi, I'm editing and formatting my wife's kid's picture books using KBC, which is great to use. However, when we published the first book on Amazon it is NOT available for downloading to Kindle for...
View ArticleUploading ePub to KDP allows >127K images in mobi (hooray!) but strips...
Okay so...we know that kindlegen and Kindle Previewer both convert images to a max of 127K. But the Kindle forma specifications say that images can be up to 5 MB. So on a hunch, I made a new book in...
View ArticleHTML Tags and CSS Selectors
Hi! Amazon's Kindle Publishing Guidelines state that KF8 supports HTML 5 and CSS 3. Are there any HTML tags or CSS selectors that should not be used (e.g., table)? Thank you! Dr. T
View ArticleSeparate HTML Chapters/Files
Hi! Re Amazon's Kindle, how do I upload chapters that are in separate HTML files? How do I identify the order of the chapters/files? For example, in EPUB, the order of the chapters/files is identified...
View ArticlePaperwhite & footnote pop-ups
Hello. I've recently started to work on ebooks and stumbled into the mess that is footnotes. So, after a lot of browsing and a lot more trial and error I came up with a decent but not perfect solution...
View Articlekindle android copy / paste
Is there any solution to copy/paste on kindle android?When i try to copy there is written "Your selection exceeds the copy limit set by the publisher of this book".But this is incorrect because the...
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