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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Kindlegen can process unmodified epubs, and epubs that pass epubcheck will usually compile without errors. I.e. you don't have to change the structure of your epub at all, unless you've defined dropcaps, which need to be slighly adjusted for Kindle books.
However, if you use Kindlegen, you'll also need to define the beginning of the book (AKA SRL=Start Reading Location), the HTML TOC and the cover image or the title page with guide items. In Sigil, you'll need to manually define these items with Add Semantics > Text/Table Of Contents/Cover or Cover Image. (Calibre does this automatically.)
BTW, as you probably know, KindleGen will automatically generate hybrid .mobi files that contains both old and new formats. You can define fallbacks for the older format using media queries. You can for example replace dropcaps with large bold letters. For more information about this, see the Kindle Publishing Guidelines. However, these fallbacks are not required because Kindlegen will ignore unsupported elements by default. |
Thanks, that's helpful. But my main reason for starting this thread is that the ePub file is already 6Mb, and the calibre generated hybrid file is 8Mb. I'd like to know if there is a way to convert the ePub file into azw3 (or KF8 or whatever it's called) without the old mobi format.
But I think I need to do more research to get a better idea what I'm asking.