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How can I convert an HTML site into an ebook?
I prefer Calibre solution. Debian Calibre package come with ebook-convert utility.
Grab HTML files from site by:
$ wget -r -np -nc -k -c http://.../.../..
Locate your main HTML file (usually book....
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
Calibre already offers this functionality without any plugin. It's part of the ebook editor that installs with Calibre.
The editor will only edit files in the epub or azw3 format though. You can ...
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How can I convert an HTML site into an ebook?
I had the exact same problem for a long time. You can produce good results with Calibre, but I found the process was a bit involved.
Instead I created a way to do this much more easily. It's a ...
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Can I change the cover of a mobi/epub book?
Yes we can do that using opensource software like Calibre.
Install the Calibre software and start the program.
Copy the ebook.mobi file to your PC.
Drag the book onto the Calibre software UI. It will ...
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is there any software available to directly write in mobi format?
Your question -- if I may restate -- is whether there are tools which allow you to create ebooks natively for Kindle.
Probably not, although it does have some specialized creation tools (Kindle ...
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
I had a similar situation: a 134 MB .mobi that I wanted to shrink.
Here's how I reduced the file size to 26 MB. The key to this approach is that an .epub is actually just a zipped web page with ...
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
Note: I intended to leave this as a comment for @mosh but didn't have the necessary rep. This is my own personal solution based on the solution he outlined. This will recursively scan a specified ...
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Can I change the cover of a mobi/epub book?
Actually, there's an easier way of changing the content:
Change the file extension of your epub book from ".epub" to ".zip"
You will be able to access all content because, now, the file became just a ...
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bulk conversion of EPUB for Kindle (mobi)
In Calibre You can select several books at once, and hit convert. It is an old feature, described on the official blog:
Bulk convert: Calibre allows you to convert books in bulk. You can
select a ...
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
bash script to for bulk compressing images in big.epub to small.epub on Windows7 or Linux.
You need to install cygwin on windows for (bash, unzip, zip, find, imagemagick).
#!/usr/bin/bash
USAGE="...
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How to change text alignment with Calibre book editor
You can use a CSS style to apply this formatting to all your text:
body {
text-align: left;
}
This rule will be applied to all your text, so it will affect both regular paragraphs (<p> and ...
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How can I convert an HTML site into an ebook?
I went nuts figuring this out. Developed mile long Xpath strings and what not. Then it turned out to be ridiculously simple. I am ignoring op systems in this answer...
(a) for the conversion to epub ...
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
Here is a Python script I use to automate reducing the size of epub books:
https://github.com/murrple-1/epub-shrink
Example usage:
$ python epub-shrink/app.py input_file.epub output_file.epub --jpeg-...
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Send periodicals via email
No, this is impossible.
Since the Kindle email service converts everything to a personal document, you must USB sideload in order to retain the periodical tag.
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I can't find the mobi format ebooks I copied from my computer to my kindle via usb, what should I do?
File size can be an issue. I've found that if the book's file size is greater than 50MB, the file will transfer to the documents folder on disk, but not appear on the kindle. In my case, I used ...
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What happens if I have used 2 different fonts in mobi/epub and user changes the font in the devise?
There isn't much you can do, if the device allows to change the fonts and the user is willing to use that option, he will do it.
If you use different fonts not just for aestethics, but with a ...
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What happens if I have used 2 different fonts in mobi/epub and user changes the font in the devise?
"As a publisher, it drives me crazy that a reader would switch fonts because of a personal preference" If they prefer it in another style I'm not sure why that would bother you. It would bother me ...
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how to get books from computer to kindle
It is rather easy with the software Calibre.
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
Check it out, just download the tool to your PC, go into it and load the eBooks you want to put onto your Kindle in ...
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How or what coding format do I use?
If you are referring to this website: http://www.mobisystems.com/android/ub-reader/ for the UB reader app you mention in your question; then they state on their homepage that the:
Universal Book ...
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Converting pdf with table of content to Kindle format
A few quick thoughts.
First, if you are using a Kindle Fire tablet, there is no need to do a conversion. just download a PDF Reader app from the app store and read the file that way.
If you are ...
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writing inline footnotes for html to mobi conversion using calibre
I've figured it out. To make the inline footnote works, must put the footnotes in the "Footnotes" section. Here is the example:
I have the file: "HDN is the best.html"
<html>
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
The short answer is that with few exceptions you should NEVER need to scale down .mobi files because Amazon.com will do it for you.
I think 5.5 MB is a reasonable file size for an epub file. I don't ...
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How can I reduce the resolution of images in an epub or mobi file?
Just install and use Send to PC official Kindle app for transferring files over the air to your device https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/pc
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is there any software available to directly write in mobi format?
I don't know exactly what you need but you can use libreoffice with the writer2epub extension that create automatically the epub version and, in conjunction with kindlegen, can create the mobi version
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How to add a background image to each page of mobi or epub books?
You could try with standard CSS rules and see if the results work for you.
Example for the background:
body {
background-image: url(../Images/image.jpg);
}
You can also try other background ...
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What happens if I have used 2 different fonts in mobi/epub and user changes the font in the devise?
First, though you can embed fonts in an epub/mobi file, there is no guarantee that the reading system will display the font correctly. I used an embedded font on my last ebook, and it did not render ...
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