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Originally Posted by nathanpinard
The order of the TOC.NCX didn't match the order of the spine. I've verified this with other books with more blantantly obvious examples. The TOC.html doesn't matter it seems.
One being a book which decided to link a chapter that was in the back of the book, long before it totally out of order (the TOC.NCX was created based on the source document)
On top of that, I think Calibre just ignores this error and makes the MOBI anyway. But when you submit that mobi to KDP, KDP does not accept it.
It would appear if you want a proper mobi to be submitted to amazon, the spine needs to be in order with the TOC.
I honestly didn't know this was a thing until now. It answers a lot of "why this mobi won't be accepted" questions. The TOC.NCX isn't used in Kindle devices that are common, but it IS used in some of the apps for other devices.
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Hi, Nathan:
Honestly, if I had known that your spine and the NCX were out of sequence, I would have told you that that was the problem. When you said, TOC, I thought you meant the TOC. Sorry about that.
That really has almost nothing to do with the "Amazon won't accept..." error, because most people don't have the wherewithal to make a book in which the spine and the NCX aren't in the same order. The vast majority of those rejections are either a) Calibre bookmaking or b) simple incompetence, the usual errors. I don't think we ever saw the NCX, did we?
I'm glad it is resolved for you.
Hitch