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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Well, if you just need to convert the file, not test out how it looks, then there is good news. As st_albert said, Kindle Previewer is just kindlegen plus a mobi viewer. So just use kindlegen to convert it directly, as the additional usage of the Previewer to see how the files will look on the kindle, is unnecessary within your workflow. 
Dual mobi is a .mobi created by kindlegen, which has both KF7 (.mobi) and KF8 (.azw3) formats. Amazon splits it into .mobi files to give old readers, and .azw3 files to give newer readers that support it.
.azw3 is Amazon's update to the MOBI format which gives it support for newer everything, including embedded fonts, since it is essentially an alternative wrapper to EPUB.
Download kindlegen from here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211
save it in a folder called "bin" inside your home folder, which is "/home/gregory/".
Any programs located in "/home/gregory/bin/" will be automatically found when you type them in the command line. (After first creating the "bin" folder, you need to log out then in for the folder to be sensed.)
Then to convert a book open the terminal, type in "kindlegen", space, the filename of the document to be converted, and there you go! |
Thanks eschwartz. I was going to ask for a kindlegen procedural. (You're reading my mind. lol) Question: does Russell's using Calibre to convert the epub to mobi make a dual mobi too? Is it as good as the kindlegen produced one?