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Originally Posted by eschwartz
kindlegen is creating a dual-MOBI.
I assume you mean it is bigger than a dual-MOBI that calibre creates. (Rather than being bigger than a standalone AZW3 which is just duh.  )
Try using the undocumented
Code:
-dont_append_source
switch to kindlegen -- by default it creates a MOBI that has both mobi7 && KF8... and also the original source files, because reasons.
For kindlegen.ini that would be the "donotaddsource = False True" mentioned in the OP.
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Also consider creating the standalone AZW3 and MOBI, and sideloading each one as and when needed.
Unless you intend to use Amazon PDOCs of course. |
I changed the donotaddsource and azw3_only settings and now I get a .mobi file smaller than that generated by ebook-convert and a .azw3 file that is larger. I will confirm that these look good on my kindles and then will start using the plugin.
On a related topic, is there a way to improve the file name created? I left the mobi_file setting blank, so it used the title as a starting point. As this was a short story, the title was in double-quotes which were translated to underscores. The embedded blanks in the title were kept in the file name. My preference in this matter is to elide the double-quotes and translate the embedded spaces to underscores in the file name. It would be nice if this could be automated by the plug-in. I also normally convert embedded apostrophes to hyphens in the file name. I imagine a more general translate table might be needed for foreign languages titles to file names.
At this point I will simply rename the files manually, but it would be nice to automate it.
Dave