Troubleshooting Kindle inserting blank pages

lpkoji · 12-29-2011, 11:20 AM

Hey everyone. Hope I'm posting to the right board, kind of new around here...

So, I'm creating my own ebook. It's just a bunch of images (comic strips) one after another. They are black&white so they work really great on the eink display.

I'm using kindlegen to create the .mobi. When I preview it with Mobipocket Reader it looks fine, no blank pages. But with Kindle/Kindle Previewer I get a blank page after the last image in "chapter".

Any ideas what is causing this and how I can avoid it?
Thanks for any tips.

Relevant code is below:

Code:

<manifest>
	<item id="item1" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="item1.html"></item>
	<item id="item2" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="item2.html"></item>
</manifest>
<spine toc="My_Table_of_Contents">
	<itemref idref="item1"/>
	<itemref idref="item2"/>
</spine>

item1.html and item2.html are identical for testing purposes:

Code:

...
<body>
<center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_01.png" width="249" height="773" /></center>
<center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_02.png" width="240" height="771" /></center>
<center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_03.png" width="243" height="776" /></center></body></html>

(The images are pre-rotated. I don't want to keep switching mi Kindle between landscape and portrait, so I'll just keep it in portrait and use images that are rotated.)

12-29-2011, 11:20 AM	#1
lpkoji Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle	Kindle inserting blank pages Hey everyone. Hope I'm posting to the right board, kind of new around here... So, I'm creating my own ebook. It's just a bunch of images (comic strips) one after another. They are black&white so they work really great on the eink display. I'm using kindlegen to create the .mobi. When I preview it with Mobipocket Reader it looks fine, no blank pages. But with Kindle/Kindle Previewer I get a blank page after the last image in "chapter". Any ideas what is causing this and how I can avoid it? Thanks for any tips. Relevant code is below: Code: <manifest> <item id="item1" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="item1.html"></item> <item id="item2" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" href="item2.html"></item> </manifest> <spine toc="My_Table_of_Contents"> <itemref idref="item1"/> <itemref idref="item2"/> </spine> item1.html and item2.html are identical for testing purposes: Code: ... <body> <center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_01.png" width="249" height="773" /></center> <center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_02.png" width="240" height="771" /></center> <center><img src="imgs/0001_5707_03.png" width="243" height="776" /></center></body></html> (The images are pre-rotated. I don't want to keep switching mi Kindle between landscape and portrait, so I'll just keep it in portrait and use images that are rotated.)

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