At this writing, for example, the titles on my KDP Bookshelf include Test and Test 2. You can even set up a book title you don’t intend to publish, and use it to test any book or to just experiment. That lets you upload and convert your files for testing any number of times before you’re ready to publish. Once you’ve signed up for an account there, you can start the setup for your book title. The simplest and most direct methods of converting and previewing your book are provided at, the site of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), where you’ll submit your book. Thorough testing, though a limited defense, is the only one we have. And so they leave behind a tangle of quirks and incompatibilities. They’re constantly moving on to new Kindle platforms and initiatives without fixing reported errors or reconciling differences with the old. This broad diversity in the Kindle family is coupled with the fact that Amazon engineers who work on Kindle don’t seem to care much about consistency or fixing past errors. Though only one format will be delivered to each customer’s Kindle, both formats are included in your preview files. The Kindle also has two completely different formats for its books: the older Mobipocket format (MOBI) and the newer Kindle Format 8 (KF8). Families include e-ink Kindles (Kindle, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle DX, Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite), tablets (Fire, Fire HD, Fire HDX), mobile apps (for iOS, Android, Windows 8, Blackberry), desktop apps (for PC and Mac), and even a “Cloud Reader” for browsers. There are several families of Kindle, both hardware and software, with a variety of members in each family, and more than one basic format spread across them. Nowadays, the chief problem is that there is no one Kindle. Originally, the chief difficulty of formatting for the Kindle came from its substandard, deficient e-book format. The information here surveys the tools and procedures for finding such problems yourself so you can fix them before they cause trouble. No, it’s not always enough to check your Kindle book in Amazon’s online previewer-and even someone you pay to convert may miss a problem your readers won’t. But that may require a task not usually performed: testing your e-book thoroughly. To make this possible you must set your font size encoding to either percent or ems in Project Explorer > Configuration > Publishing Options > WebHelp > HTML Export Options (these options are also used in eBooks).If you’re publishing on Kindle, chances are you want your book to look good on it. Users want to be able to change the font size in the reader. Embedding fonts makes your eBook files much bigger and you must have permission to distribute the fonts from the font copyright holders as well. You can embed your fonts in your Mobi books, but this may not be worth the trouble since users can change the display font anyway. The Kindle readers allow users to select the font they want to display their book in. If you have separate style settings defined for screen and print view then the print view settings will be used in Mobi. Most of the style settings in your project will be used in Mobi eBooks with the exception of the font face (see below). There is currently no way to change this. The result is that the text in table cells with less text is centered vertically instead of starting at the top or bottom of the cell. Instead, all alignment is automatically set to middle. Vertical alignment settings for tables are also ignored. If you use tables in your Kindle eBook any column widths you set will be ignored. Table column widths and vertical alignment are ignored They will simply be ignored by the reader. Indented paragraphs are not possible in Kindle eBooks displayed on the iOS version of the Kindle app. Also, numbered lists should not contain more than 9 items, because the indents will look incorrect as soon as the list switches from single to double digits. It is best to use only simple bullet lists, and simple numbered lists. No other bullets will be displayed in lists on the iOS Kindle app and multi-level lists with changing numbering and bullet formats will be displayed as an unpredictable mess. Lists only support plain black round bullets and simple numbering Since so many users read Kindle books on these devices you need to be aware of these restrictions and avoid formatting that will result in ugly or incorrect layout on these devices. At the time of writing, the iOS Amazon Kindle app for the Apple iPad and iPhone is inferior to other software and hardware Kindle applications in many ways.
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