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Are there ereader tablets that allow handwritten notes in ebooks?
I'm looking for a tablet that one can write handwritten notes in ebooks with. I want to be able to take handwritten notes separately also, outside of ebooks, so I prefer a tablet that does more than ...
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Kindle app not finding all files
I have several epub and mobi ebooks on my Andriod phone. The Kindle app finds about half of them. I went to settings->local file access and unchecked and rechecked each folder where the ebooks are ...
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How to make a ToC with partial links
For KDP, I want to create a table of contents with links for chapters (header 1) only but no links for subtitles (header 2) within chapters. The purpose is to shorten the table of contents, as I have ...
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How to reset the Icarus Go E600BK
I have an Icarus Go E600BK ereader.
It has worked since years. But recently, whenever I open a book and go to the next page, it restarts and goes back to the opening menu.
I cannot find any ...
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Looking for International Platforms for Self-Publishing Technical Books
I am a technical book author looking to sell my work internationally. I have been publishing my technical books on a platform called 'Zenn'(https://zenn.dev/books/explore) in Japan, and I am wondering ...
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How can I make a title carry over to the next page if it is left alone (without text following it)?
In the Pages program, there is an option to link paragraphs or any blocks of text to each other.
This is needed, for example, so that a title is carried to the next page with the main text, rather ...
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Page breaks from word document not in kdp preview
I've uploaded my docx to KDP.
I have a page break before each 'heading 2' set in styles.
Through the book page breaks are honored...
except in Section 3.
Each section has 12 chapters.
6, 7, 8, 10, 11, ...
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remove books from daughters iPad with a kindle app
I loaded the Kindle App onto my daughter's iPad. Her kindle app is synced to my Amazon account. I want to remove the books that she will likely have no interest and only keep the books I want her to ...
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Extending images to edges of screen (bleed) with CSS to Kindle
Kindle Create has a new feature called "image bleed". It extends an image past the left and right margins by placing it on the edge. I'm wondering how to reproduce it, is there a way to ...
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I uploaded a Kindle book. How can I view the book description prior to publishing?
I want to publish a Kindle book. I uploaded both the description and content. However, I can´t find the description on the Amazon Kindle page for review before publishing. I can see the content but ...
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Extra epub file inside an epub ebook?
I have an epub file which weighs 5.4 MB, and I looked at the files inside using Calibre's "Edit Ebook" feature.
I noticed the following weird thing: among the files inside the ebook are two ....
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Can we transfer annotations of a .epub file to Kindle?
I have a .epub file with some annotations and highlights. I was reading this on the Calibre desktop app. I transferred the file to my Kindle using the drag-and-drop service from Amazon. However, the ...
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How to use Malayalam dictionary on kindle
I would like to use Malayalam dictionary on my kindle pw. I downloaded a Malayalam dictionary named "English-Malayalam dictionary by Gijo Varkey". I tried all formats of the dictionary viz ...
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How to upload my PDF in Stack Exchange?
I have a PDF file and want to upload this file here on this platform to generate OCR to my PDF file. Has any link or description to help me on this work to be accomplished?
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newly added books from PC don't show up in Kindle
I have some issues with my paperwhite 5 and I need some help.
I was able to use it for months wo any issue.
I copied many books from PC into Kindle's "documents" folder (in mobi format) - ...
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Encode Tag Metadata Into Epub
I have recently started converting some of my non-epub documents to the epub format. I see in Calibre that there is a 'Tags' column that contains genera information (screenshot below).
I would like to ...
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Punctuation Moved to Beginning of Line?
I am working, not to say struggling, with an EPUB3 book exported from InDesign 2023.
The dedication page looks like this in Sigil:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!...
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Why doesn't my PDF have updates made to the original EPUB?
In Calibre, I went in the editor and edited an EPUB and everything is fine; even sent the updated book to my Kindle and the updates are there. When I convert to PDF in Calibre and save to disk the ...
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Google play books reader inbuilt dictionary does not work for pdf ebooks
I like the Google play books reader app. I generally have ebooks in PDF format. I frequently use the dictionary feature but this feature does not work for PDF ebooks. So I need to convert them in EPUB ...
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How can I convert a PNG to a PDF, where the width of the PNG is fitted to a page size, and it is broken apart into pages?
This seems like it ought to be obvious, but is anything but. I'm working in Windows.
Suppose I have a PNG that is say, 1,200 by 6,000 pixels. I would like to be able to convert it to a PDF, such ...
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Dot inserted on EPUB doc with Calibre
I am converting an Open Office Doc into EPUB with Calibre and everything works great, except in front of every Chapter Heading in the body of the doc, Calibre adds a single dot. I am using the tag &...
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CSS modal for epub with fallback
Our revised pure CSS modal works OK in virtually all eReaders I've tested (at least on the eReaders I needed to attain good results). The page code does have a very minor "onclick" JS. The ...
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What are the disadvantages of offering a title at Amazon simultaneously POD (pdf) and as an ebook (kpf), but with different layouts?
I would like to offer the same title in two different formats at Amazon, namely as a printed book generated from a pdf and also as a Kindle-format (kpf) e-book.
The reason for this is that I can do ...
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Is there a way to turn off hyphenation for a .kcb file?
Is there a way to turn off hyphenation for a .kcb file, either using Kindle Create or a more sophisticated .kcb-outputting program
Choice of whether or not to hyphenate is a user setting on a Kindle, ...
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Images chopped horizontally on ADE
I have about 20 images in an epub (on various xhtml pages).
My prepped epub shows its images (when tested on cell phone):
OK on Kobo App [with .kepub.epub extension set]
OK on PocketBook eReader
OK ...
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My trusty kindle broke after many years and I never made a Kindle account, how can I transfer the books I have from the device to the kindle app?
the screen of my Kindle broke a while ago and I thought I could just transfer the files of my Kindle device onto my Kindle account. I never bothered really setting up a Kindle account because I ...
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Can the same book be published at Amazon in colour for the Kindle app and black and white for print?
Hardcopy books cost more to print in colour than in black and white, whereas distributing an ebook that is readable using the Kindle app costs the same in both. Is it possible at Amazon to publish a ...
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What makes the Kindle Paperwhite to show text from a EPUB file in light-gray font?
I've converted a DOCX file to the EPUB format using some online converter. It looks like the conversion was performed using the Calible behind the scenes. However this EPUB file is barely visible on ...
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Software to Verify Formatting across ebook Readers
Is there anything out there to check that your fancy formatting will get displayed properly in ePub, Kindle, Kobo, phone readers, etc?
Many years ago, when my company first started making eBooks we ...
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Is it possible to disallow a reader to swipe to the next page in epub format?
I've started working on a "choose your own adventure" book, for which it seems epub is well-suited. The choice at the end of a section are mere href links to the sections that are the ...
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Kindle Fire what is the toggle option in collections under "view"?
Kindle Fire what is the toggle option in collections under "view"? There is a blank toggle switch right under the view options (grid, list, most recent...). Can anyone tell me what its ...
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Calibre on TrueNAS
I have setup Truenas scale 22.12.3.1 and I wanted to move my libraries to Truechart calibre app. So I setup the app with app storage 2 NFS Shares, 1 for Imports and 1 for Libraries. The NFS Share ...
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Is there a DRM-compatible ebook reader with continuous vertical scrolling?
I am looking for an eReader app for Android that will allow me to purchase DRM protected ebooks and read them with continuous vertical scrolling. So far I've only managed to find apps that only ...
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Ebooks that allow handwritten notes
Is there a place to buy ebooks that allow handwritten notes in the apps used to read them? I'm considering buying etextbooks, and want to be able to write handwritten notes in them with a wacom pad. ...
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iPhone 14 Nook Orientation Problem
Recently my nook app on my iPhone 14 switched to landscape mode. Normally, you just change the orientation of the phone to change the viewing mode. But it seems stuck there. It is very annoying. ...
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Is it possible to move links or ocr layer from a djvu file to another one?
I have two similar copies of a text in djvu format:
– one copy has an OCR layer;
– the other copy has various convenient links in the "Contents" and "Subject index" pages, linking ...
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Calibre - no available format
I have been using calibre in Mac for a long time. Recently I subscribed to iCloud and store my Calibre folder in iCloud. Somehow, plenty of books in my library cannot be open (mainly PDFs) and the ...
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Epub with SVG does not work on Kindle app
I am trying to create an epub book. The book includes svg. I have previewed the book in kindle preview and it displays correctly. But when I open it in kindle app on Mac and iPad the display is all ...
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How do I download TED transcripts to a Kindle Paperwhite without using Instapaper or Windows Chrome?
I am a Windows 10 user who would occasionally like to download the entire transcript of a TED presentation to my Kindle Paperwhite without having to use Instapaper or Firefox's extension for Chrome (...
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Sending Personal Computer's Screenshot of text to e-reader makes text blurrier than before. Why?
Sending Personal Computer's Screenshot of text to e-reader makes text blurrier than before when I embed the screenshot into a word document/pdf file. Why?
Image looks fine on a personal computer.
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Where/how is information on Collections stored on the Kindle Paperwhite?
Where is the (local) information about Collections stored on the Kindle Paperwhite? Any additional information about the format/structure would also be appreciated.
On my older Kindle ("3 ...
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TOC Links not going to the correct place
I am using kindle create. The TOC looks as I would expect it to though it does spill over on to a second screen which displays only the final two chapters. Sometimes when I click on a chapter number ...
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Will Kindle Direct Publishing maintain my formatting around images
I know KDP can upload Word documents. I have a large part of my book completed and I want to include images. I know they will be displayed in black and white on a Kindle, but what about formatting? I ...
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Questions about File Guidelines in KDP
I don't understand some requirements listed in here: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202145060
Is the native file the file I give to Amazon?
What does embed fonts and images mean?
What are ...
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How to open/convert a DJVU file of a math textbook which contains equations?
I have found that some archived versions of old textbooks use DJVU files. From what I understand, the DJVU file only contains text, but perhaps I am wrong about that and there is some additional image ...
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Looking for a PDF reader for Windows with good usability in tablet mode
I have a Surface Pro 7, and when I bought it, I intended to use it for reading A4 sized PDF books. Now I find that I almost never do so, because of low app usability.
The features I am looking for in ...
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E-Reader with decent browser for rendering openHAB dashboard
I'm running openHAB on my Raspberry Pi 4 with several dashboards. Now I want to display one of these dashboards on an E-Ink display and I'm looking for a good device. The openHAB dashboard is just a ...
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Ebook epub3 on Kindle Reader iOS iPhone is overriding CSS with ugly indented formatting?
I have an epub I've hand coded that looks great in Kindle Previewer, iBooks, and Kindle Reader for iPad, and physical Kindles. However, on iPhone, it is gettting rid of the CSS formatting I've ...
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Words I added to the personal dictionary are ignored
I added words to the dictionary but sigil continues to underline them with red in the editors. I closed and reopened the program (like a restart), but to no avail. There are no complicated ...
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Can you page only half a page instead of a whole page
I always end up on a page where something I want to highlight is between two page, or copy. Is there a way to navigate half a page?
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