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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Kindle Create is rubbish. It's got a few fixed styles. I set up a Win7 PC a few weeks ago to try it. The Modern equivalent of Mobi Creator, and less flexible!
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One of us is confused. I am 99.9999999% sure that I
never said that
anyone on the planet should use KC. It's fine for DIYers that don't know bupkus about coding and want a kind of drag-drop type thing, but I would NEVER use it. EVER. I suspect you're talking to Lumpy, yes?
Of course it has a few fixed styles. It's not meant to replace Sigil. It's a Word-->MOBI(ish) tool that Amazon's introduced for the millions of publishers that can't be bothered to learn HTML but still want an eBook that "looks nice." You don't like the limited number of styles, but look at all the people that are slavishly devoted to that Apple program, that works much like this. SS, DD. A limited number of styles, but the end result looks nice and that's what the authors want--without having to know what a p is or a div or anything along those lines.
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Sigil, Calibre and even the LibreOffice 5.x epub plugin or LibreOffice 6.x built in epub are far better than Kindle Create.
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Yes, Sigil certainly is. Sigil is
not, contrary to what you said,
"fiddly." It's a
fantastic tool for those of us who work in code. Calibre is fine if you want a shortcut and don't want to dive into the code. For some professionals, it's a shortcut to a file that they can then clean up, in Sigil; for me, I use it only for a library of converted books. I don't use it for conversion. I don't need it, as I clean my content in NoteTabPro.
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The epub 2 is sufficient.
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I'm not sure who you think is disagreeing with this?
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An epub2 is FAR better than the best docx or doc to upload to Amazon.
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And that's fine, too. I personally prefer to build a MOBI, because I am picky and thus, like Media Queries to ensure that I can get everything JUST SO. But, for many books, MQs are not necessary.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
IMHO, it doesn't make sense to convert an epub file to an docx file and then have KDP convert it again to an epub file.
If your epub file passes epubcheck and Kindle Previewer displays the green Enhanced Typesetting check mark you might as well upload the .mobi file created by Kindle Previewer, because you can never be sure that the automated .docx conversion won't introduce errors. (Make sure to also check the conversion log.)
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I agree. I don't understand what's happening here, or why anyone would convert an ePUB-->DOCX-->KDP. It's a lot of additional work for no purpose that I can think of.
Hitch