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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Gotta be kindlegen stripping them out. I assure you it's not Sigil. Sigil will happily allow you to create files (pages) with either visible or invisible characters in them.
Are you verifying the epubs you create with Sigil have the page-breaks you expect using ADE or some other epub reading software/device before feeding it to Kindlegen? Seems like a logical first step to me. If your extra blank pages appear in ADE, then you can move on to getting advice for kindlegen/mobi creation. If they don't appear in ADE, then you need to figure out what's going wrong in your conversion/export from odt to epub.
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AFAIK,
It's certainly not Sigil, assuming arguendo that the "page breaks" or, rather, "blank pages" are made correctly. We should clarify that we are all discussing the same thing.
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How the hell do I get Sigil and/or Kindlegen to stop obliterating my blank pages?
I like to use blank pages between sections of the book, or after particularly impactful chapters, because it gives a nice little bit of breathing room.
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So, he's not simply discussing page-breaks, which are easy; he's trying to deliberately create and deliver blank pages, which, as someone already pointed out, will be considered "glitches" or errors at Amazon by readers (and most likely reported as same).
Kindlegen absolutely strips out blank content of any kind--empty paragraphs, and empty pages. Not that I've tried to deliberately create blanks, other than in FF books.
The only way I see to do this is to put something on the page. The single-pixel approach is as good as any other, I'd say. Of course it's a "workaround," because ebooks aren't
supposed to have blank pages, really.
Hitch