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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Thanks, Hitch, that's most helpful.
calibre can convert ePub to 'Amazon' files and produce either azw3, or only mobi, or a 'both' version which contains azw3 (equivalent to KF8, so far as I know) and the old mobi (equivalent to KF7, so far as I know). I use the 'both' option, so that people using early generation Kindles will read the KF7 version, and later versions read the azw3 version. My Kindle Touch is about a year old, and reads the azw3 version. The real value of your response to me is that even the later Kindles can't handle page-break-inside:avoid.
The forty or fifty verse poem looks just awful on my Kindle Touch. So after I've calmed down a bit I'll probably withdraw the 'mobi' version from the MobileRead library. The author has been dead for over a century, so I don't think she'll mind.
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Alex:
I think you're over-thinking it. If you simply leave the ePUB up there, for those that have Kindles, they'll email it to the device, or Calibre-ize it, anyway, and obtain the same result you already have now. Why take it down? Those of us that read on Kindles already know that the verses will break, and they certainly shan't hold it against you--nor shall the author!!
I understand the Mobi versus AZW3 thing in theory, from Calibre, but as I don't use it, I wanted to be clear that I can only address "regular" MOBI KF7 and KF8 formatting capabilities. For all I know, Kovid put something different in there. Thus, as I don't know about that, I wanted to clarify that I couldn't comment about that formatting mechanism/CSS capabilites.
Hitch