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XRaySpeX · 12-07-2010, 01:52 PM

Hi, I'm new here. I own a Kindle 3 which I am very impressed with, but I know nothing about eBook internals (and hope I don't need to).

I have a .MOBI file which when I view it on my Kindle displays every chapter on a new page (and the previous page part filled). It does not have those marks in the Progress Bar at the bottom, which seem to enable you to skip to Prev/Next Chapter using the L/R 5-way. I don't know what these marks actually are as neither Kindle or Calibre seem to define them.

I just fancied changing the book cover of this .MOBI, which I did eventually manage. However, when I used Convert .MOBI to .MOBI, the chapters in the Output .MOBI just ran on from one another without any page break. The marks in the Progress Bar did appear and I could now skip to Prev/Next Chapter using the L/R 5-way.

In the Structure Detection I used Chapter mark = "pagebreak"; it had no effect. Nor did "ruler" or "both".

Could there be something wrong with my Detect Chapters at Expression, which is at default?

12-07-2010, 01:52 PM	#1
XRaySpeX Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Reading, UK Device: Kindle 3 3G	Losing Chapter PageBreaks in .MOBI on Kindle Hi, I'm new here. I own a Kindle 3 which I am very impressed with, but I know nothing about eBook internals (and hope I don't need to). I have a .MOBI file which when I view it on my Kindle displays every chapter on a new page (and the previous page part filled). It does not have those marks in the Progress Bar at the bottom, which seem to enable you to skip to Prev/Next Chapter using the L/R 5-way. I don't know what these marks actually are as neither Kindle or Calibre seem to define them. I just fancied changing the book cover of this .MOBI, which I did eventually manage. However, when I used Convert .MOBI to .MOBI, the chapters in the Output .MOBI just ran on from one another without any page break. The marks in the Progress Bar did appear and I could now skip to Prev/Next Chapter using the L/R 5-way. In the Structure Detection I used Chapter mark = "pagebreak"; it had no effect. Nor did "ruler" or "both". Could there be something wrong with my Detect Chapters at Expression, which is at default?