Hi Donna, Johny come lately here. Reading up on Mobi and finding your posts has got me concerned.
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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
And the fact that, unless something has changed, a Calibre-created MOBI file won't work on Kindle for PC if you upload it to Amazon and specify that DRM should be added to the ebook.
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Well that's one more reason for the argument against DRM. So I think we'll be OK there with our books because we're not going to use DRM.
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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
I know Calibre will create an inline TOC when converting to MOBI format, as long as you can set the correct regex to accurately identify the headings you want included in the TOC. It works most easily with books that are accurately coded (using h1, h2, h3, etc, for titles and headings) and/or that have chapter/section titles that include words such as "chapter", "section", etc. However it's tacked on at the end of the book, which is fine for personal use, but is less than optimal for commercial publication, particularly for non-fiction books, where you will likely want the inline TOC to appear as part of a free sample offered for download, to give the prospective purchaser an accurate and detailed overview of the book's content.
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Am I naive thinking that my epubs converted to Mobi in Calibre with default settings may not be Retail-Ready?
I'm proofing on an iPad with the Kindle App and MobipocketReader for the PC and they look pretty cool if I dont say so myself but have I missed something out that I'm not aware of?
Forgot to mention - I didn't rename the paragraph styles from the original source files (InDesign) so they are called all sorts of things (subsubsubhead etc.) that previous designer thought up