Thread: Professional Quality Personal Documents: KDP and/or Calibre?
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Old 04-01-2014, 10:13 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
You can upload a .mobi, and I am fairly certain it will not reconvert it, but I believe some metadata/ToC/cover changes will be made (cover will be missing if you send a dual-formatted MOBI). And .mobi doesn't support embedded fonts, a deal-breaker for many.

To be honest, I'm not really clear on the details, since I prefer creating documents with calibre and sideloading.

I have my own backup/sync service, courtesy of linux rsync.
Many thanks to both respondents. I don't know enough about this to even appreciate what a dual-formatted .mobi file is. But I DO want my covers to show up when I upload. I use to sideload everything until I realized that the Personal Documents would sync and backup my highlighting and notes. So, I've got to figure out how to use Calibre in a way that will force my uploaded .mobi files to retain their covers when converted by Amazon. If that can be done. I think the Kindle-issued guides for ToC can be adapted easily enough for my modest purposes. So far, footnotes have converted well, so basic annotation seems to be preserved well-enough. My formatting is probably pretty basic (rare graphics, italics but no other font changes, footnotes).
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