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Originally Posted by GeoffC
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Thank you very much Geoff. I must say this process of creating an ebook is bizarre. It seems far more art than science with very little documentation, or rather I should say no comprehensive documentation. I see lots of FAQs and lots of help in forums, but because so many of the tools are open source (to which I am forever indebted), there are no real manuals.
For instance, Kindle Previewer for Mac had difficulties sending my MOBI file (Sigil EPUB converted to MOBI via calibre) to Kindle for Mac. Instead of Kindle for Mac opening, calibre would open and attempt to reload the file I had just opened with Kindle Previewer. Truly a vicious circle. Searching for "open with kindle for mac" in Google actually produced a singleton. It must be a relatively new feature.
I was really stumped until I just tried dragging the icon of the MOBI file onto the Kindle of Mac icon.
Et voilá, my brilliant Mac started Kindle for Mac, which added my book to the library. It would have been a lot easier if Kindle for Mac had a menu item for manually adding a book from my hard drive, but I can understand them not including that feature — most users would never desire such a feature.
All in all, this has been a interesting and challenging experience.
Jennifer