My Kindle Content folders show old books with today's date
I posted this in another thread here and someone suggested I post in an Amazon thread instead. Below is a copy of that thread and I sure hope someone can help: I've never posted here before so thank...
View ArticleKindle Review page
Amazon has a review page that pops up at the end of a book. Some books manage to have this page pop up at the actual end of the story vs the end of the book. This allows them to add back matter such as...
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On repairing defective apnx files.
(Please don't use this thread to vent that ebooks shouldn't have page numbers, what the numbering scheme should be, or other off topic posts.) Three of the books that I've read recently with amazon...
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Putting an Image in the background of a MOBI
Hi, any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I am currently working on a MOBI project. For the TOC we are attempting to fill the screen with a background image that text will sit over. I have...
View ArticleExporting from Kindle Create?
I am using Kindle Create for the first time. I imported a draft of the book, in Word format, into the software. I have subsequently done a fair amount of editing now in the Kindle software, and I would...
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Free How-to eBook on Kindle Create
For anyone interested, I've written a free ebook in PDF format that describes, in simple step-by-step detail, how to create reflowable ebooks, fixed format ebooks and paperback books using MS Word,...
View Article(sigh), Kindle/KPF format Blues...
So, sportsfans: Another happy week in the world of eBookmaking. I have a RAVING client, who is irate about the service we've provided him. That's of no interest to anyone here but me, but, in terms of...
View ArticleMobipocket reader blowing up the image
Hello, English is not my first language, so sorry if I sound weird. I am trying to learn to make a mobi file with the help of Jutoh. I don't know any coding yet, but would like to use media queries to...
View ArticleWidows and Orphans
I saw a new question on Reddit asking why many pages were shorter than expected when there was clearly enough room left on the screen for another line of text. Widows and orphans seemed the obvious...
View ArticleHelp to understand/ extract data from .mbp and .apnx
Good day to all: I have an old kindle backup and I want to extract the information of some books (only a few). Specifically I want to extract the last read page of them (to resume the reading). I have...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines 2019.2
Version 2019.2 of the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines is now available. (Refresh the web broswer if an old version is shown.) Listed changes are: Quote: Updated the following sections to add...
View ArticleRemoving bullets in lists
Hello, Is there any way to remove the bullets/numbering in lists? The code « list-style-type: none; » doesnt seem to be working. Im asking this mostly because Id like to use my ePub3 nav.xhtml as...
View ArticleChange AZW3 compression algorithm?
Afaik AZW3 is based on mobi, wich uses probably deflate (?) to compress. Would it be possible to recompress/change the algorithm to PPMd? The memory usage is one mb higher, but the compression is way...
View ArticleOpinion on Best Format for Text+Wordclouds
A personal journal project that makes use of wordclouds to index each entry has a concern about file size. The KFX is awfully large at 250 MB, and so is there a way to reduce the size? What bloats it...
View ArticleIssue with KP 3.35?
It's me or Kindle Previewer 3.35 for .KFX books doesn't support the padding property?
View ArticleSending books in series order to Amazon Fire
Apologies if this has already been posted. I have many books that are part of a series. I have these books in the correct series number order(1,2,3 & so on) on Calibre yet when I try to send these...
View ArticleHelp ;with Kindle Page Numbers
Hi. This is my first day on this forum. I am looking for someone who can help me with my effort to self publish my book. I had a publisher who took me all the way through the layout phase and is about...
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problem with self-created covers on kindle paperwhite 2015
Hi all, I have been creating e-books for more than a year now using: - markdown - pandoc for markdown to epub conversion - calibre for metadata editing, epub to azw3 conversion etc.. I usually use...
View ArticleHelp with converting for older kindle.
Hi there, I am having an issue converting .epub files for my wife's older kindle device. It is the 4th generation Kindle from 2011. I have tried using Calibre as well as Kindle Previewer 3 to create...
View ArticleHero images for chapters
I just became aware that Kindle Create has an option to insert chapter start images. I am not certain, but I think that this is new in version 1.34.20, released in December. This feature allows a hero...
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