Thread: epub mailed as png to Amazon will be converted
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Old 07-30-2017, 05:29 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by AlanHK View Post
This suggests that when Amazon gets this "png" file it is recognised as a zipped collection of HTML and css. It is ignoring the metadata in the OPF (title, author, cover image tag). It is not really converting epub. There would be ways to test that I guess. Is everything in the right order (though I suppose that's the ncx)? Are all the chapters in the "Goto" list? Does it get the cover? How about if the cover is not named something like "cover.jpg"?

Anyway, to convert ePub I use the Sigil Kindlegen plugin that makes an azw and copy it to the Kindle via USB. No email, no Amazon. Everything works.
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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice View Post
It converts it to AZW3. Everything "works" as you'd expect from an AZW3 it just doesn't include the metadata or page numbers.Everything is in the proper order.
I concur. I'm definitely getting an AZW3.
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