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Originally Posted by Hitch
Moreover, unless someone is making it solely for their own device, the AZW3 info isn't useful. You can't build an AZW3 file that will be sold at Amazon. You can build a MOBI. You can build an ePUB. You can upload a zipped HTML file, or a Word file or a kpf file. But you can't upload an AZW or AZW3 file.
Hitch
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You can now upload ePub to Amazon.
Results of LibreOffice Writer (edit in .odt), "Save As" MS docx (not OO docx), open once to check, import ms dox, create epub. Do not open epub before making a copy to upload to Amazon & Smashwords or otherwise Calibre ereader adds a bookmark file.
Getting all the paragraph styles right is important.
Also NO parent styles and no "named" style for Text Flow of a paragraph style, just set insert page before.
Note that if you use Heading1, Heading2 etc, epub will seem fine, but mobi conversions will have outline level numbers. So for headings/chapers use named styles with no parents, and you can set "Level" so they appear in Writer's navigator.
Each heading must have a bookmark (Anchor) in front, do not select a character or word (old MS Word Form habits). Then make an index. Copy and paste into a plain text file, delete the index. Copy the plain text back.
Then select each entry and do Ctrl K to set a hyperlink. Enter the bookmark in URL with #, like #prologue, #ch1, #appendix etc. It will then be a document link and not an external URL.
Conversion SW (Calibre, Amazon, Smashwords) uses this manually edited TOC to make the NCX.
I've found that Calibre "honours" Writer page breaks created by "text flow" "insert page before".
I've found that the Amazon Kindle Creator is rubbish compared to Calibre and also that Amazon tends to ignore .docx and .doc page breaks. The Calibre created epub works perfectly for Amazon upload.
Then when Amazon sells an ebook they know which format to supply, old mobi, AZW3/KF8 or evil KFX. Even if you select "download to PC" and transfer, as you have to select which is the main Kindle (or App) the ebook is for.
Smashwords don't know what Kindle you have, so uploading a .doc to them creates an "old mobi". Uploading a Calibre "dual mobi" to Smashwords for Mobi seems to work (on a Kindle Keyboard, Calibre viewer and PW3).
I have a small paper size set up in LibreOffice Writer and the ePub from Calibre looks the same.
A paperback needs extra page styles and paragraph styles as well as headers/footers. Easier to add that than take it out!