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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
So, I decided to go back to square one and re-uploaded the Kindlegen-created mobi originally sent to KDP on October 23, 2014, when Last Mulligan was published. I'm quite certain that the auto-hyphenation was not present on my Fire HD6 for that version, although after trying to fix things for over a week now, I'm beginning to wonder if I just didn't notice it. My other recently updated books also have the same problems, though, and I didn't notice auto-hyphens in earlier versions of those either.
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I just viewed the downloadable sample of the file as it was originally submitted to KDP on October 23, 2014. This is the one I uploaded again this morning. The e-book has auto-hyphenation on my Fire HD6 and no auto-hyphens on my Android tablet Kindle app. Same as other recent uploads.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I've just ordered the sample: 2/23/15 at 1:38p.m. MST.
FYI, this:
...is one of the things I was endeavoring to determine in my fairly endless list of questions.
I'll report back on the sample.
UPDATE: I am not seeing ANY hyphenation, at all, on the new sample. I don't know of what it is representative, mind you, but I'm not seeing it on my FireHD. (Original version).
Hitch
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Thanks, Hitch! That's very helpful to know.
EDIT: Are you saying that words
intentionally hyphenated by me (like
early- and
panic- aren't hyphenated, or did you mean you aren't seeing the added
auto-hyphenation? [I'm confused by your capitalization of the word ANY quoted above.]
The sample you downloaded today at 1:38 p.m. MST should've been from my latest upload (which was the same file I
originally submitted when the book was published in October. That sample is auto-hyphenated on my Fire HD6, yet you didn't see any...interesting! Is yours a 7" or 8.9" Fire? Did you have the device set to a fairly large type size?
A new software update (4.5.3) is being pushed to some Fire devices now. My HD6 is still at version 4.5.2, so it'll be interesting to see if the software update changes anything.
I need to know how the text looks on other Fire devices, so if anyone else can report that, I'd appreciate the info. I'd particularly like to know if this is happening on anyone else's Fire HD6 (please mention which software version if you know).
I e-mailed KDP support this morning to see if we can discuss these issues over the telephone. I've been working on this problem for over a week, and back-and-forth emails are getting nowhere.
The thing that perplexes me most is why auto-hyphenation is showing on my Fire HD6, but
isn't on Hitch's original Fire HD or in the Kindle for Android app. Those all read KF8. And why does the side-loaded file, downloaded directly from KDP, look fine on my Fire HD6? KDP tech support has told me they see auto-hyphenation in their previewer. So, why isn't it showing up on all KF8 devices? So many unanswered questions....