Image-only eBooks now require a fixed layout manuscript on upload
This was posted by Amazon on March 15th for KDP published books. Quote: To ensure a great reader experience, KDP now requires eBook manuscripts containing only images, including images of text, to be...
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How to update Kindle Previewer render engine?
Hi, I am kinda new to creating books for kindle, especially KFX format. First, I am trying ti write an Arabic ebook with special font that has special font character for each number. However, I am...
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Kindle truncating title page text
Converted book from InDesign CS2014 to ePub and cleaned some things up in Sigil. When I view the book in Sigil or Calibre or iBooks everything looks fine. However, when viewing in the Kindle Previewer...
View ArticleIndesign epub export to kindle - footnotes and hyperlink code conversion to...
Hi, I'm having problems exporting a book to kindle from an epub. I had to setup the footnotes as hyperlinks because indesign doesn't let me reference 3 footnotes in the body text to the same end...
View ArticleCan I email to kindle and overwrite a doc or book?
I'm trying to use my kindle paperwhite 6th gen to keep an up to date list of 'To do' jobs. If I update the list and email it to my kindle from my computer I get a duplicate file each time. Does anyone...
View ArticleJoin mobi files
Hey! I have 3 mobi files that were created with the Kindle Comic Creator (with the panels in each comic on the page). Is there any way to combine them into a single file, keeping the comics preview...
View ArticleEPUB or DOCX to MOBI
Greetings, I recently converted a DOCX into EPUB in Calibre, and I am quite happy with the result. However, I am now wishing to also make a mobi file of it, and therefore I wonder if this sounds like...
View ArticleCan footnote popup be edited?
Hello, An epub I am formatting has both footnotes and endnotes. When I am in Kindle Previewer and I click the footnote reference the popup header says "Footnote" and the footer says "Go to footnotes" a...
View ArticleExtract Mobi Max Location value
Hi, I'm trying to extract the Max Location value from a .mobi to use it in combination with a .han file from my kindle to let a script decide if I finished reading that manga. I just can't seem to get...
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Help converting a dictionary to kindle format
Hello, Ill be very grateful if someone can try to convert this English-French dictionary (available in both Babylon and Stardict format in attachments) to kindle format ? Tank you in advance, Attached...
View ArticleConverting an azw3 file thats all images to pdf
I have an azw3 file that Ive unpacked, and the contents of the mobi7 folder is images and similar for the mobi8 folder (there is a epub file, oebps folder, meta-inf folder and mimetype file). The...
View ArticleSending out a review copy of Kindle Comic Format
An interesting one. A client asked for an eBook to be produced of their graphic-heavy book and so the logical solution was to use the Kindle Creator Tool to make a comic format edition. There were...
View ArticleLegitimate sources of AZW3/EPUBs to Kindle
Hi, I'd like to add something to a thread somewhere, anywhere but not sure where, with a summary of buying or borrowing books from LEGITIMATE alternate sources. If a summary already exists, can you...
View ArticleKDP Formatting Guidelines clarification KFX KF8
Are we to suppose that KFX supports the specified KF8 HTML tag elements unless explicitly stated they're unsupported by the KFX supported/unsupported list? (And the same for the CSS attributes and...
View ArticleAmazon ending support for fixed-layout books published in MOBI format
Amazon has announced that beginning in March they will no longer accept MOBI format from publishers for fixed-layout books. Support for publishing reflowable format books in MOBI format was...
View ArticleAuthor Sort when sending converted files to Kindle App on ipad
I had a bunch of mobi files I wanted to send to the kindle app on my ipad. I also wanted to do some minor editing of the titles. So I edited the metadata before I did the conversion from mobi to epub....
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines 2025.1
Version 2025.1 of the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines is now available. This is the first update since 2019. Listed changes are: Quote: Updated following sections as Amazon supports enhanced...
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Tables display in Kindle Previewer 3
I'm trying to understand why some tables are displayed one way with a little clickable widget beneath the table and another table is displayed without this widget. Both examples have the same basic...
View Articlekindlegen/mobi dictionary inflections limit?
Hey! I'm trying to create a Kindle dictionary for a language with lots of inflections (~30 inflected forms per headword). Everything is working fine when I am not using the full data but once I get to...
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kindle previewer layout issue
Hi there. I have an issue with my text layout in kindle. see previewer page with text which appears forced left for some reason. can't figure out why. there are places in the text its fine and other...
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