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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I've just uploaded A House to Let by various authors in ePub and mobi formats. The ebook was made in ePub format and converted to mobi+azw3 with calibre.
The book contains a chapter with a long poem. I have set up each verse in a div with page-break-inside:avoid, and that works as expected in the ePub version on a Sony T3, Kobo Touch, and iPad mini with iBooks and with Bluefire. That is, the verses stay intact and don't break.
But in the Kindle version the verses do break - page-break-inside:avoid makes no difference at all.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is calibre not converting that part of the ePub properly? Or do azw3 files not obey that markup?
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I have no idea what an AZW3 file does or does not do. Am I given to understand that you create a MOBI (kf7) and an AZW3 file (Kf8) as separate entities, with Calibre, is that right? Obviously, the MOBI won't obey any PBI:avoid formatting.
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Would the verses stay intact if I converted the ePub file with one of the Amazon programs?
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No, not really. Alex, I know you know this. Poor guy, why is it always you that labors over poetry like this? Tell the authors that that's simply the way it is on Amazon. Trust me, thousands of authors bemoan the very same issue with it comes to captions, about which I read here on MR near-daily. {shrug}. We work with captioned material all the time, and sure, it can make you bonkers, but getting ulcers over widowed captions makes more sense (somewhat) than getting ulcers over a verse breaking across pages.
Good luck!!
Hitch