[KevinH]

Hi All,

I have a new experimental version of KindleUnpack that has all of tkeo's latest changes for epub3 support and that will generate an apnx file if the mobi passed in has a PAGE section.

So if have an epub that has either a pagelist in the ncx or a page-map.xml, and you pass it into kindlegen, kindlegen will create a mobi with a PAGE section.

If you then pass that mobi into KindleUnpack, and split it, you should now find a:
- mobi7-BOOKFILENAME.mobi
- mobi7-BOOKFILENAME.apnx
- mobi8-BOOKFILENAME.azw3
- mobi8-BOOKFILENAME.apnx

all in the unpacked output directory.

I don't have access to an actual Kindle, but I am hoping if you side load either version and its associated apnx, you should see actual page numbers that exactly match what what was provided in the original epub.

So if anyone has an actual Kindle they can test with and an epub with real page numbers in either the pagelist in the ncx or a separate page-map.xml file, I would love to have help debugging the apnx generation and getting it to actually work.

Please let me know if you are willing to help and I will upload the experimental version of KindleUnpack for you to try.

Thanks,

KevinH


PS: FWIW, it works perfectly with my Kindle.app on my Mac OS X machine. Page numbers show up just fine when I move the .azw3 and its .apnx into "My Kindle Content" folder.

So I would love to know if this works for standalone Kindles and other Kindle apps.