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What "official" examples are you referring to?
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211 ... on the right.
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Not really, if you manifested all unmanifested file, KindleGen would continue to work and you'd end up with a valid epub.
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If, but I don't have to for KindleGen to work.
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You also claimed that it isn't possible to create valid epubs with Amazon guide items with Sigil, which simply isn't true.
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When Sigil stopped supporting Windows XP, it was still struggling with EPUB version 2. Maybe it has caught up with EPUB version 3 by now, but yes, I wouldn't know and neither do I care about Sigil.
ePub 2 was XHTML 1.1, whereas ePub 3 is XHTML5 (according to
http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epu...changed-xhtml5). In that same document it states that <guide> and NCX has been depreciated in ePub 3 (
http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epu...c-deprecations).
So which version of ePub do you make with Sigil? If ePub 2, then you can't use HTML5 tags; if ePub 3, then NCX - which KindleGen requires in an ePub - and <guide> are gone. Or do you go for a hybrid ePub 2/3 that might or might not work as expected on all devices?
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The current KindleGen version does not require these declarations.
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Yes, it does. Maybe not for the languages in which you publish your books, but in mine it's certainly required.
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There is an “or” in there, so the use of an ePub is optional.