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![]() ![]() So.you don't necessarily have to buy a copy. The one thing is, once the RPNs are activated-assuming that they are-it will be shown as having them on the Sales page. and this wont surprise me, ADE doesn't read pageList?).You can't check it. Will Amazon's readers honour the pageList info from an uploaded ePub2 file? How can I check my encoding in the toc.ncx is working? A little scared that Doitsu's one didnt work on ADE. and this wont surprise me, ADE doesn't read pageList?). I'm a little unsure about mucking about with MOBI files now that Amazon are dropping it and kindlegen won't be updated any more. This leaves me with the "can I get the pageList bit working". so that only works for paperbacks published through Amazon? Not by Ingram etc? (ugh). Ask them to add the print ISBN into the metadata at the KDP upload page. So: I'm going to leave THAT bit up to the client. interesting, so RPNs are really actuially REAL page numbers from the ACTUAL print book? I'd taken the "real" bit with a kidney-witheringly large pinch of salt. (A separate APNX file is not needed for KFX.) That can then be sideloaded to a Kindle and will show the page numbers. ![]() sdr folder) along with the MOBI file to allow the display of page numbers.Īnother method is to use the command line interface to my KFX Output plugin for calibre in order to convert the KPF file to KFX format. The proper one can then be sideloaded (to the appropriate. The KindleUnpack plugin for calibre can extract the PAGE records and convert them to the equivalent APNX files. Kindles require a separate APNX file in order to display page content for MOBI7 or KF8 format. However if such a file is sideloaded to a Kindle that information is ignored. ![]() The Kindle Previewer is capable of exporting three Kindle e-book formats, AZK, KPF, and MOBI.Ī Master MOBI exported from KPR contains PAGE records that encode the page number information. "You cannot see page numbers within the Kindle Previewer, however there are some workarounds for this. " Real Page Numbers cannot be previewed in Kindle Previewer or by sideloading, but they are visible when your eBook is published and are mentioned on the detail page. Different strokes, different.well, you know. are created by the reading device, not RPNs. The "page numbers" that you tend to see, inside your typical novel, etc. That's what they've directly told me, and I haven't seen any behavior yet that contradicts that. That's why they require the ISBN, in the meta. And sometimes, you have to email them and ask them to enable them. And they only enable RPNs, when they make that correlation. You have to have a print edition, on sale, on Amazon, which is the print edition you are matching. HOWEVER, don't be fooled into thinking that what Amazon says on that page is actually quite, exactly, right. It's at the point that when we make an eBook from an InDesign file, whether our own or someone else's, we export the RPNs and use them. Yep on the previewer not showing page numbers. Prob not going down the ADE page-map route as the cliend will be uploading ro Amazon and no telling what that may throw up! (this project is epub2, hence using pageList) Note comma before left bracket, this is non-valid.I always use epubcheck, it's fired off automatically by our built tool. You can try to configure \emph to produce html code more suitable for kindle, something like: \Preamble I don't have access to kindle previewer, so I don't know what is the issue, probably it is a Kindle DX bug. ![]()
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