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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! |
Getting a mobi has become my new priority and I tried your instructions and got a bit bogged. The download from Kindlegen is a zip file and when I tried to save it to bin in it's entirety it would not paste. So I was figuring maybe I needed to save the file shown in the screenshot (Kindlegen).
Then I looked at the "read me" of the Kindlegen file and it said to (see next three screenshots) create a file called Kindlegen in Home and I couldn't do that either (see 132).
So I'm doing pretty good so far, dontcha think? (I maneuvered MR successfully anyway.)
Any ideas? Thanks.