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I'd like to include images in HTML source for a Kindle book. Is a data URL image kosher for Amazon? Are there any restrictions on e.g. length? Thanks,

I have a new Kobo Libra and bought 2 online epub books. I transferred them onto Kobo by using Calibre. When opening the eBook the layout is fine except that all images appear very small!? I've opened ...

I am changing from Kindle for reading eBooks onto a different eReader platform. I've purchased a couple of eBooks for Kindle on the Amazon platform but those books I didn't start reading yet. ...

Given a PDF without a TOC or bookmarks, is there a way to create a TOC by automatically detecting the headings?

Is there a way to export images that I've highlight on my Kindle? Thus far I've only been able to export text. Thanks!

Setting up a new Kindle Fire HD 10. I selected restore from backup from a slightly older (but still current) Fire HD 10, but progress was still at 0% after an our, so naturally I selected "...

I have a mobi ebook full of equations and texts. The equations are in image format, but the images are very light in contrast, and hence, my kindle is not able to render those properly. Is there any ...

Is it possible to force the text of a (short) note to be displayed directly on the page, rather than just the note icon? Reason: I like to make clarifications and comments as though I have pencilled ...

I'm writing a book using the Kindle Create application (v1.43.0.0) for Windows and I have two issues with references throughout the book. I have quotes in the book and I want to reference the source ...

I have a pdf with lots of equations which gets distorted when converted to mobi format using calibre. Is there any reliable way of doing that? The equations in the pdf might have been written using ...

Navigating through https://github.com/danchoi/kindlefodder I've found that some of the docs contain a neat section list. To view it, you have to click on the top of the page to reveal the options, and ...

Whenever I have an EPUB file and open/read it using Calibre, Calibre silently edits the EPUB file. I know that Calibre edited my EPUBs because I calculated the checksums (SHA-256, MD5, etc.) before ...

In my Kindle device I downloaded some books of .mobi format. I opened a website in experimental browser and downloaded some mobi format books from there directly on my Kindle device. Now these books ...

I have an ebook with lots of references (about 700) that are listed at the end of the book. I wanted to convert the ebook from epub to pdf so I used Calibre. The problem is that I get a pdf with 900 ...

I intend to use Seumas MacDonald’s Ἡ Ἑλληνικὴ γλῶσσα καθ’ αὑτὴν φωτιζομένη (Lingvæ græcæ per ſe illvſtrata, or The Greek language illustrated by itself) to learn ancient (Koine) Greek. I can load a ...

I'd like to compile culinary recipes into epub format, one recipe per ebook. It would be good if instead of hard-coding ingredient amounts, the user could simply enter the number of people they're ...

I use Calibre on Linux and have a kindle (not sure the model but it has touchscreen and a built in light). I'm wondering if there's a way to get these readers to move endnotes to the bottom of the ...

I use calibre as my primary ebook manager (and viewer). I like to convert books to pdf, mainly because when viewed with Ubuntu's native evince document reader, I can use the autoscroll feature. Evince ...

I am writing an alphabet book for toddlers. While, the paperback version has multiple characters (and their accompanying pictures) on the same page, I figured the kindle version should have only one ...

I have a large (~200MB) image-heavy epub file that I want to convert to a <20MB mobi file. Following the advice in the answers to this question I am able to reduce the epub file size to <20MB by ...

I work for a small org in the academic world, and we want to provide around 100 books for students from 17 schools. We want to be able to have a website where students can login and view any of the ...

I've noticed that some kindle-oriented features on the Amazon site don't work on my 5th Gen paperwhite. I assume this is because the paperwhite doesn't run the Kindle app. Maybe it's related to DRM, I ...

I've created some Collections on Amazon's Manage Content and Devices on my PC. Now what? I don't see any way to sort or select books by a particular Collection. Lots and lots of info on how to create....

My issue is the following: I go outside on a bright sunny day to read and turn off the back light via the settings menu so as not to waste battery. That evening, in my darkened bedroom I reach for my ...

When I double click the icon, the app stops at "initializing..." I tried everything from Reinstalling Creating a "dumps" folder from the instructions that the Amazon help center ...

DRM software out there is pretty expensive, like Adobe's DRM solutions. Even resellers of their service are a little expensive for a smaller business. This is the best price I could find. I'm ...

Never used one before. Looking for e-reader that can manage hand movement under words, blocks,over pages without turning page? it has to handle PDF's. Finger under words help me read faster. I do need ...

I have this folder structure: ./Fonts/chimod.otf ./Styles/style.css ./Text/main.xhtml content.opf toc.ncx Here is the content.opf: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ...

Given a kindle book published on Amazon KDP, is there a way to find out from where traffic or sales came from? For example, I might add links pointing to my book on my website, or on social media, on ...

I need to create a Kindle eBook containing code and diagrams. Can anyone suggest the best tool to create diagrams and code blocks that blend easily into KDP format?

I am planning to create an ebook and publish on Amazon (kdp) format. However,When I converted my rough copy to kdp . The code formatting was not up to the mark . What is the best way to include code ...

In calibre I have some different libraries in which I store different kinds of books. Most of them don't have a "built-in" cover, so I use the cover generation function of calibre to create ...

I'm new to creating ebooks. I have mp3s and mp4s that I want to include in my epub so I started off making an epub v3. I started with using Sigil to create my file but I'm wondering if it was a ...

Kindle asked me to do an update and I did it. Then I rebooted the computer and I lost more than 30 books. Then I asked explained a kindle expert the problem and he told me to uninstall kindle and then ...

I have my Kindle Paperwhite and put downloaded book (.kfx format). I am reading regularly without problem in predicted left time of the book. Until I reached 50% of the book it only display 1 min left....

Is there a simple way for renaming a lot of ebooks, getting the relevant information from their metadata? Of course I can open the ebook, copy the data and renaming one file at a time, but since the ...

I have a computer title as an ebook and a paperback on KDP. Because the book is about an open-source software I have promised to make the ebook free after one year. I can make the epub a free download ...

I am creating an epub3 of mathematical argument, using mathml for formulas. How do you write a block of formulas one below the other all vertically aligned on the left and not centered?

When I read ebooks in English or French and want to look for the wiki page of, say, a famous person, I only have access to the wiki page in Portuguese (I'm in Brazil) but often that page is ...

As you can see, the mobi file is 44M which presumably is too large for something somewhere along the line in getting this into the kindle e-mail service: thufir@dur:~/Calibre Library/William Rothwell$...

I'm able to add a mobi file to the internal storage of my Kindle Fire (circa 2015 model) via USB but I can't seem to copy it anywhere on the SD card and have it show up in the kindle app. As I'm ...

I recently borrowed a DRM book from the Internet Archive, but all the apps I've found that can use it (Adobe Digital Editions, Aldiko, Bluefire) don't support continuous scrolling. I'm not really use ...

From within Calibre I generally right click an EPUB book, select "share" and send it to my Kindle address -- it pops up on my e-reader fine. I'd like to set a preferred font for that ...

There's this collection of web pages (say, a blog) I'd rather read on my kindle device. Using pandoc, I turn them into an epub book, and in turn using kindlegen I convert them to mobi and send them to ...

On the Wikipedia page for DjVu, it is stated that PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorised data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images The use of the word "primarily" ...

I don't know whether I lost my Kindle or left it somewhere in my house since I haven't used it for over a month. Now when I check the device list in my Amazon account, I just couldn't find it. Does it ...

I'm guessing it's through MathML. MathML is a W3 standard technology for representing math as XML in documents. It's used on the web, and this thread seems to suggest support in Kindles. I tried ...

Recently I have upgraded my Calibre from 4.0.x to 4.17 and I found out a problem which did not occur before. Usually I download AZW3 file from Kindle App (PC version) and copy the downloaded AZW3 ...

Ebook content versus physical book content wrote in 2014 that mathematics on an ebook is a complete mess, at least until epub3 will be deployed in full What is the state of the art in 2020? What ...

This is a follow-up to Ebook content versus physical book content I experienced that on my 6,8" ebook reader I focus on a too small area, thereby I cannot remember well to the contents. I cannot "...