Hi Ruben,
To be honest, I've only limited experience with this topic. I only toyed it with it when
KevinH added the APNX generation feature to KindleUnpack. If you have super-technical questions he's the guy to ask.
Adding a page number basically consists of the following:
1. Adding unique page number targets to the .html files. For example.
<a id="page1" /> (which Sigil will save as
<a id="page1"></a>). You can, of course, add ids to all tags that can have one.
2. Adding a pagelist to the NCX file or a separate pagemap file. Since Kindlegen supports both methods and pagemap is an ADE extension, I'd recommend pagelists, unless you're going for cross-plattform compatibility.
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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
And regarding ASIN, can it be any number? (I ask you this because the generated .mobi could be a public domain book whose ASIN doesn't exist).
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AFAIK, yes. Calibre uses UUIDs and my simple KindleGen wrappper (which includes KevinH's dualmetafix_mmap.py script) uses only the last 12 characters of the UUID to generate a fake ASIN and it seems to be working. However, the downside is that if you sideload books with a fake ASIN and an EBOK book type, Paperwhites will not generate a cover, even if the book contains one. (For more background information on this see the
dualmetafix_mmap.py thread.)
However, my plugin can optionally also generate a thumbnail image, if you set the corresponding kindlegen.ini parameter. For more details, see the
kindlegen wrapper thread. Note that in order to generate thumbnails, you'll need to open a command line prompt as an administrator and enter the following command to download and install the Python Imaging Library.
Here's practical workflow example that uses my plugin, you can of course also use Kindlegen and dualmetafix_mmap.py manually.
1. Install my simple
Kindlegen Sigil plugin.
2. Change the following kindlegen.ini parameters before running the plugin:
Code:
azw3_only = True
donotaddsource = True
add_asin = True
3. Download
PW2_pagelist_2.zip and extract pagelist.epub.
4. Open pagelist.epub with Sigil and use the Kindlegen plugin to generate an .azw3 file with it. If all goes well, you should end up with a
Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.azw3 file and a
thumbnail_e9b1fce6366b_EBOK_portrait.jpg file. (Your
random ASIN will of course be different.)
5. Run Kindleunpack and unpack the .azw3 file with it using the default settings. Kindleunpack will unpack the file and automatically generate
mobi8-Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.apnx. Rename this file so that it has the same name as the .azw3 file, but an .apnx extension. I.e.
Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.apnx
6. Copy the .azw3 file to a folder in the Kindle
/documents folder and the thumbnail .jpg file to the (hidden)
/system/thumbnails folder. Create a new folder in the folder that contains the .azw3 using the same name as the book but with the extension .sdr. In my specific example, I'd need to create
Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.sdr. Copy the .apnx file into this folder.
For example if you put the .azw3 file in the folder /document/test, it should contain the following:
Code:
Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.azw3
Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.sdr
(The Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.sdr folder should contain Page number test [paglist]_e9b1fce6366b.apnx.)
To test the page numbers, open the new .azw3 file and select
Go To > Page or Location. If the .apnx is valid, the Page button should be no longer greyed out and you should be able to select a page by entering its number.
To display the page number while reading a book, tap the lower left corner to toggle between page number, min left in this chapter/book and location.