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Kindle Direct Publishing: How to mention other Books
Somebody knows how I can create "View in Store" Links within my Kindle E-Books?
I noticed that some books I've bought on Amazon use these special type of links which have a little book symbol next to ...
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Kindle phrases dictionary
I recently bought a Kindle Oasis. Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm using the dictionary option within e-books. I noticed that the default dictionary doesn't recognize pair of words or ...
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Why am I getting spurious TOC entries in Calibre?
I'm converting an RTF document to epub (and mobi) and am trying to extract a table of contents.
All of my chapters start with the word "CHAPTER" in all caps, but are not tagged in any special way. ...
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How do I read a Latin language text, and be able to hold finger on words I don't know for instant definitions?
I can read some Latin, but not enough to finish a book without a dictionary nearby. I'd like to read some old famous writings of the Romans. I'd be curious if anyone's figured out how to do this on ...
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How to call a plugin from command line?
How to, lets say, hyphen an ebook with Hyphenate This! plugin from command line?
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Text flow up into the table in Mobi file
I have created .ePub from Indesign, perfected the layout to match that of the .PDF and converted to .MOBI using KindleGen. The text/image appearing after some of the tables flow into the table. Only ...
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Where can I sell ebooks for bitcoin?
What services/websites have you tried that you found favorable when it comes to selling your digital wares for bitcoin?
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How to download highlighted text on Kobo Aura HD?
I often highlight words that I don't know on my Kobo Aura HD, so that I can come back to them later. Is there any way for me to download the list of highlighted words onto my computer? A file on the ...
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Why is my cover image being made grey in my MOBI file?
I am creating a .MOBI file for upload to Amazon's Kindle services. I have a cover image that contains a lot of white.
When I view the image in my Kindle app on my Android device, which has full colour,...
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On Kindle 4, can you send a dictionary as email attachment?
In a Kindle 4, I am trying to install a dictionary between to languages (eg. English->German).
This is what I tried so far:
I have found a .mobi file from this site http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2011/01/...
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How to convert Kindle format (.mobi or .azw) with annotations to PDF?
I'm looking for a way to convert a Kindle book, with several annotations in it, to PDF format, so that my annotations are also saved in the PDF file.
Converting from .mobi or .azw to PDF seems pretty ...
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☒ <- this is the only text displayed in epub on kobo
Having issues with ebooks, some new ones, and some that worked perfectly before (about a week ago).
In the text sections throughout the book, I see either and only "☒" or "_☒". All ...
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Is there a way to see words looked up in Wikipedia?
Kindle adds words you have looked up for which it can find a definition to the Vocabulary Builder, but it does not appear to save the words for which it can only find Wikipedia definitions. Is there a ...
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What (if any) are the current models of e-readers with good pdf text reflow?
I've had my I-river Story HD for ages (I think since 2013 or something), but I managed to damage the screen by dropping it, and now it's basically unreadable with all sorts of black lines going across ...
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Can epubs include input fields and enough javascript to allow measurement unit conversion?
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 ...
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