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Originally Posted by ldolse
@Hitch, I don't think anyone disbelieves you, I think the OP is just getting a bit confused between the discussion of formatting vs. DRM.
@eggheadbooks1, what you're seeing in the Kindle Previewer is exactly what you'll see on a real Kindle (note that's not true of KindleforPC/KindleforMac). People use Calibre generated mobis all the time on real Kindles, and many have noted the same thing you noted in your testing, namely that Calibre generally does a more accurate conversion from epub to mobi than Amazon's own tools. AZW and Mobi are exactly the same to the best of my knowledge, Amazon just changes the extension, and the DRM is very slightly changed over mobipocket's original DRM scheme. If you're not planning on publishing to Amazon you don't need to worry about the rest of the discussion.
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Hi, Idolse:
No, she's
not confused. I was quite clear about the difference in the KDP-forum thread, and I'm pretty sure the "...
some forum user who may or may not have his own agenda" crack is fairly precise language--and the OP is, after all, an author (who has published several discussions about her expertise in Kindle formatting, as well as blog articles, etc. all in the last 2 weeks on the KDP forums). Pile on the authoritative "I for one have never heard of this" and Kovid's comment about Amazon making a "ridiculous excuse" and I
could either appear stupid, ill-informed OR someone who has an agenda, and I simply want to stop this in its tracks before it goes further.
I also told her that mobi and azw are
precisely the same (along with prc, for that matter), and that azw is naught more than--literally--a MBPC-generated book with a proprietary file extension, and that the mobi/prc/azw extension had absolutely nothing to do with the issue. The entire discussion came about because the OP does not wish to use CSS to eliminate Kindle's default first-line indent on paragraphs, and announced to the KDP that using Calibre "fixed" the issue. I didn't want some poor noob author using Calibre to produce a book and then have books returned by unhappy users (as did my client, way back when this came up), because
everyone on that list is publishing to the KDP,
everyone is doing commercial production, even if it is only one book at a time. So I responded on that list, in an attempt to head off someone else's misfortune. I shouldn't have let snark get up my nose, here on MR, but it's been a long few weeks here at Booknook, so my "diplomacy-low light" is flashing. ;-)
@Kovid: and yes, I reported there as well that you were not motivated to chase it down. The OP retorted that she'd ask you
herself. So I guess you've been asked, and now replied on the topic a second time.
Thanks, @Idolse! @Kovid, nice to see ya.
Hitch