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Originally Posted by Skydog
But how do I accomplish the same task with the Kindle app for iOS? My converted .mobis do not display page numbers in the app. Calibre is set to the default of inserting the [PDOC] tag during conversion. Should I remove this or replace it with something else prior to conversion? How can page numbers be incorporated in the converted mobi file without creating a separate (APNX) file?
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On iOS it's trickier, for some reason the Kindle app treats every side-loaded file as documents so it doesn't natively support page number. To enable page number, you'll need to have
a jailbroken iPad/iPhone & a file browser such as iFile(or you can use SSH/SFTP if you know what you're doing).
Basically you just need to rename the APNX files and copy all the APNX files from
Kindle -> Documents to
Kindle -> Library -> PageNumbers and all the MOBI files to
Kindle -> Libray -> eBooks folder. Below are the steps you can follow for the iFile method:
- rename your generated APNX file to "book-asin-number.apnx", not the mobi file's name. For example if your book name is "My Book.mobi" and it has the ASIN # as "B00001", the APNX file should be named "B00001.apnx" and not "My Book.apnx"
- connect to itunes, drag & drop all the books(mobi) and renamed APNX files to the Kindle app
- open iFile, then go to Sidebar -> Application -> Kindle -> Documents, hit "Edit" and choose "Cut" for all the files with APNX extension, hit "Done"
- go to parent dir, then Library -> PageNumbers, hit "Edit" and paste all the APNX file here
- go back to the "Documents" folder, "cut" all the mobi files you would like to have page number enabled
- go to parent dir, then Library -> eBook, hit "Edit" and paste all the MOBI files here
Now you should have page number enabled on the iPad for the books you've copied.