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teresatenured · 03-01-2018, 01:23 AM

My Kindle (Paperwhite, 4th Gen) has broken

. Half of the screen is 'blurred' with vertical lines, and is totally unresponsive. Tried to hard reset, no luck. Luckily, the top half of the screen (6.5 cm) works.

I am trying to make some use of it before I finally chuck it. I looked into swapping out the Kindle screen, but after some research it doesnt seem feasible. Rather, id like to format my Ebooks to make them readable on my defunct Kindle. I can see about 600 contiguous characters of text on the screen. Then the letters start to blur.

So id like to make it so that each kindle page only shows 600 characters. After 600 characters, I would like to insert a page break. Then after 600 more characters, another page break. I would like to do this for all my books, so that they will be readable on my broken Kindle.

Any Ideas on how to add page breaks, either in Calibre or Word or Acrobat? I've had some success adding page breaks on a short document in Word, but I had to literally count 600 characters and then click 'Insert Page Break'. The document was readable on my Kindle, but it would not be feasible to do this for a whole book.

TLDR; Kindle broke; want to add page breaks to my books after each 600 characters of text.

Thanks!

03-01-2018, 01:23 AM	#1
teresatenured Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2018 Device: Kindle 4th Gen	Add page breaks in Calibre My Kindle (Paperwhite, 4th Gen) has broken . Half of the screen is 'blurred' with vertical lines, and is totally unresponsive. Tried to hard reset, no luck. Luckily, the top half of the screen (6.5 cm) works. I am trying to make some use of it before I finally chuck it. I looked into swapping out the Kindle screen, but after some research it doesnt seem feasible. Rather, id like to format my Ebooks to make them readable on my defunct Kindle. I can see about 600 contiguous characters of text on the screen. Then the letters start to blur. So id like to make it so that each kindle page only shows 600 characters. After 600 characters, I would like to insert a page break. Then after 600 more characters, another page break. I would like to do this for all my books, so that they will be readable on my broken Kindle. Any Ideas on how to add page breaks, either in Calibre or Word or Acrobat? I've had some success adding page breaks on a short document in Word, but I had to literally count 600 characters and then click 'Insert Page Break'. The document was readable on my Kindle, but it would not be feasible to do this for a whole book. TLDR; Kindle broke; want to add page breaks to my books after each 600 characters of text. Thanks! Last edited by teresatenured; 03-01-2018 at 01:31 AM.