![]() ![]() One thing you should keep in mind is that Kindlegen is a command line tool, meaning you can’t just open it and automatically connect it to your book file. I suggest you download this file for future reference. If you want to learn more about these two applications go to. Since I don’t want my uploaded book to turn out looking like it was created by an amateur, I’m taking Amazon’s advice. Those are pretty strong reasons for using the Kindlegen and Kindle Previewer apps. This tool is recommended for publishers, eBook conversion companies, and individual authors in combination with Kindlegen to produce the highest quality Kindle books.” Kindle Previewer makes it easy to preview the layout of a book and make sure its text displays properly for any orientation or font size. Files created with 3 rd party software may not work properly on current or future Kindle devices & readers.”Īgain quoting from Amazon, “Kindle Previewer is graphical interface tool that emulates how books display on Kindle devices and applications. Only Kindle files created using Kindlegen are guaranteed to be compatible with the current and future Kindle devices & applications. ![]() Quoting from Amazon’s Guidelines for Publishers, “Kindlegen is the only tool officially supported by Amazon to convert files to the Kindle format. By doing so we can spot glitches and correct them before uploading to the Kindle Digital Text Platform. ![]() Their purpose is to view a book as it would appear on the Kindle reader and/or other devices. Both are free programs provided by Amazon. It occurred to me that I first need to explain the uses of Kindlegen and the Kindle Previewer, because I will employ these tools to embed and view my book cover. I warned you I’m a newbie at this and you would be learning along with me.In my last blog I said I would next talk about book covers, but I’ve changed my mind. Well, I’ve learned a few things since originally publishing this post. Please note the revisions and additions.įormatting your text for Kindle take some time but it doesn’t have to be painful. First, if you have not already done so, I suggest you read the formatting guidelines provided by Amazon on their Digital Text Platform support pages. Formats supported by DTP are Zipped HTML (.zip), Word (.doc), Adobe PDF (.pdf), ePub (.epub), Plain Text (.txt) and MobiPocket (.mobi and. Since I use MS Word, I will refer to that application.Īccording to Amazon, “DTP converts all text formatting to HTML tags and processes images automatically.” They advise us to convert Word files to HTML within Word. Then we are to “make sure the formatting looks good” before we upload our converted HTML text to the DTP. Make two backups of your book file, one on your computer and one on an external drive.In order to accomplish this, we need to do some prep work. I use a small, handy-to-carry thumb drive. Open one copy of your book file in MS Word. If you store your book as separate documents for each chapter as I do, you need to combine them into one big file. I work chapter by chapter, making the necessary format changes in each one before pasting it to the end of my combined document. If you prefer to combine all chapters first, that’s up to you. This might cause you some difficulty in removing page numbers and headers, although I’m not sure about that. Experiment and see what works best for you.ģ. Kindle books are reflowable (viewable with different font sizes) page numbers are unnecessary and would cause problems. number and your last name, such as you would include on hard copy submissions to editors, are also unnecessary. ![]() The Kindle DTP automatically indents each paragraph. If you use tabs to create paragraph indents, get rid of them. Otherwise, you will end up with uneven indents in your uploaded book. ![]()
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