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Originally Posted by Timbow
I can upload html in a zip to amazon, but it is much preferred to prepare a complete tested and checked epub?
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You can upload your book as a .zip file or as an .ePub file. (You could also upload a Kindle Previewer/KindleGen generated .mobi file.) However, creating an ePub file first has the advantage that you can have it checked by epubcheck and Sigil FlightCrew.
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Originally Posted by Timbow
Sigil/Calibre are preferred methods of creating epub?
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You can use either program to create an ePub, however, I wouldn't recommend uploading a Calibre generated .mobi file to KDP, because they occasionally get rejected.
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Originally Posted by Timbow
In my html I can forget semantics and leaness. I just want simple functional markup for layout.
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In that case check out
pandoc, which can generate epubs from markdown documents.
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Originally Posted by Timbow
Hang on. Do I ned to write xhtml for an epub? kindle documents say they accept html5.
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KindleGen supports a subset of HTML5 as well as XHTML and even HTML 3.2. For more information on supported HTML5 tags refer to the
Kindle Publishing Guidelines. (Sigil will automatically save HTML files as XHTML files.)
BTW, if you decide to give Sigil a try make sure to select Edit > Preferences > Clean Source > Pretty Print Tidy. Otherwise Sigil might automatically create unwanted classes for inline styles.