Proof reading on the Kindle is so much better. Nowadays I spend five minutes preparing the manuscript and then email it to my kindle for review five minutes later. It was a shock, not so much that I still had them, but a reminder of the trouble I'd gone to, to proof read. The different medium really helped me see the narrative from a whole new perspective.įast forward five years and I recently cleaned out my study and found those A5 copies of Chasing Innocence. It was in 2009 and the now ubiquitous Kindle was not even a rumour in the UK.īack then I exported my book to PDF but reading it on the laptop screen was no different than reading it in a wordprocessor, so I printed it two pages per A4, bought a guillotine and binding machine and read my book in A5. I'm so far into writing the book my thoughts recently turned towards proof reading, which immediately reminded me of finishing my first book. It would be interesting to scale up the image sizes for the B&N tablets and see how they do on the older readers, though.I'm currently busy writing a book that's been buzzing away in my head since February. I can find no guidance from B&N on how to build a childrens’ book for them – so far what I do is create a 1-up plain epub file, jpg and text combined, in a smallish image size (520 x 660 px or less). The KF8 specs do allow for locking the page orientation, and page size. I have built 1 file so far with the KF8 specs, but I’m not sure yet how it looks on a device. Also, KF8 has a section on setting up a Children’s book for Kindle Fire. The guide is only $5 so I am sure it’s money well spent. Have not yet been called on for this particular application. You might want to check out Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis for info on how to use the “read to me” feature. These files are good for every Kindle device…and I recommend using this method for mobi file delivery until KF8 is supported on most/all devices. My second step in the Kindle process is to create a stripped-down ePub file (removing all bells & whistles) and then converting it to mobi in Calibre. It goes in the same area as the TOC page, in the content.opf file, in the guide section:Īs an extra double-check, I used, where I wanted the book to start, but that didn’t do anything. Second hack: It’s possible to force the Kindle to start in a specific place (haven’t yet tried this to make Kindle start on a cover). Hit the “Table of contents” button, and this is the page it finds. However, this is the one that Kindle Previewer can see when it builds the mobi. : ) I already have a TOC built, after all. I like to think of this TOC page as an extra pair of underwear, worn on the outside. Then, I tell Sigil which page the TOC is in the content.opf file in the guide section, like so: In order to make this KF8 compatible, I have to create a TOC page, all linked up to each chapter. I do an ePub file in Sigil, with all the bells and whistles – floated pictures, right and left margins, simple tables, etc. Until all Kindles are fully KF8 compatible, I am doing a work-around. So close that I wonder why Amazon STILL isn’t supporting straight ePub. With Kindle Fire, Calibre is not yet ready to do the conversion to mobi – even though the new Kindle Fire format (KF8) is pretty darn close to ePub already. It used to be I could create pretty much anything in ePub and then run it through the Calibre conversion to mobi, and then upload ready to go, with a nice clean TOC. My usual process for creating books has changed a bit.
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