My first Kindle...is jumbled
I have completed a manuscript in Serif PagePlus. It is a book about landscape design and is mostly drawings originally done in autcad but converted to .png. The layout is fairly simple, there are...
View ArticleDifferent Previews in 2.94 and 3.29
Hi Folks I could do with some kind(le) help. I'm working towards the publication of my daughter's book which'll contain a large number of images (optimised to keep the weight down). I'll be using the...
View ArticleFirst Ebook-Many Questions
I want to publish an ebook about landscape design. There are some photos but many designs originally done in Autocad then exported as .bmp and then brought into Photoshop to be cropped and then saved...
View ArticleKindle cover problem
Hello everyone! I am new here so not sure if this is correct category. Anyway... I am formatting books for living. For print and ebooks. So far I didn't had problems with any of my clients, but... One...
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invisible del / "line-through"
I had some text that was supposed to be crossed out, it was formatted <strike> -- editing the book in epub in Sigil, to export to azw3 using kindlegen. <strike> seemed ok on screen and...
View ArticleAccessing files on chromebook
I used Calibre to convert a few epub books to AZW3 format and saved them to Google drive. I then downloaded the files to my chromebook (Pixelbook). They appear as zipped files and a default unzipper...
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KFX dictionary
I would like to create a NADSAT KFX dictionary (just as a proof of concept). As the wiki says, dictionaries for new languages are now formatted as an SQLite data base. and, Quote: Originally Posted by...
View ArticleImage displays correctly on Kindle Fire but not Kindle Paperwhite
Hi, we have a mobi book with a background image that is supposed to display at the top of every part and chapter opener. It is working fine on a Kindle Fire but on the Paperwhite it displays on every...
View ArticleBest practice for chapter heading images
I'm sorry if this is a question that is often asked, I tried searching but didn't get very far. The book I'm formatting for Kindle has chapter heading images. What is the best practice these days? Is...
View ArticleBuilding a .mobi with Kindlegen
There was a switch in Kindlegen so the .mobi builded hadn't inside the file "kindlegensrc.zip". But I can't remember what was the option to include in the command line in order to get that. By chance,...
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Table of contents doesn't show up in Kindle Previewer
I'm creating an ebook in Sigil, and then converting it to Kindle format using the Kindle previewer. When I view the book in the Kindle Previewer, I cannot access the table of contents from the "view...
View ArticleStart location
Quote: Originally Posted by jhowell (Post 3826136) Version 2019.1 of the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines is now available. Listed changes are: ... Updated 5.3, Guide Items, to clarify that the...
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Recognizing KFX virtues
Just to report that in this instance KFX is the format which rendered best my text: Inspired by a recent link in the workshop, Quote: Originally Posted by Doitsu (Post 3825582) ... Here's a link to a...
View ArticleConverting AZW3 to KFX; any reason not to?
Hi all, You may have seen my recent thread regarding page breaks and linespacing on the Oasis 2; this is a new thread, as it concerns a slightly different question. I've decided the best way to achieve...
View ArticleSoliciting reviews from readers
My client has requested I include a page just after the main matter that looks something like this: Quote: Thanks for reading Book Title. Please leave a review or share to let other readers know about...
View ArticleReduce margins and normalize line spacing
Hi guys! Is it somehow possible to reduce the margins more than what's available in the kindle settings? I've got some epub books which I convert to kfx (used to convert to azw) with Calibre. I tried a...
View ArticleLogical TOC in mobi binary
To make a long story short I'm making an ebook converter in C#. So far everything is great when creating a mobi except what I believe is called the "logical toc." In case I've got the terminology...
View Articlehow remove text from purchased mobi or azw3 ?
Hello all, I happen to purchase few ebooks in mobi and azw3 formats and than to convert them in calibre to PDF format. In the PDF file to my surprise :blink:i found my name and email adress...
View ArticleMS Word vs Open Office Word
I am tired of using Word and how it messes up the format of my eBook. I can export to Open Office and keep the current format but is it worth the effort. Is Open Office better to use for writing my...
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Kindle Touch 4th Generation does not render published font correctly
I am using Calibre to create an ebook in the Urdu language. The language is written from right to left. The whole book is in Unicode and uses UTF-8 encoding. If I open the book in TextEdit on Mac. Mac...
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