Thread: What is a perfect procedure for generate a amazon kindle mobi file?
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Old 06-24-2019, 10:12 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
Your friendly gobsmacker here ...

My goal is to create a Kindle book to upload here, in addition to the EPUBs I'm uploading. Preferably the most modern format that I can produce, which I'm guessing will be AZW3? I'm not selling books on Amazon.

I'd rather not use Calibre to convert the EPUB to AZW3 because, for one thing, as the original poster points out, things may not come out as you'd like, but I was thinking, hoping really, that an Amazon tool wouldn't do the whole rewriting thing that Calibre does and that would make it easier to debug why things don't look right. I'm hoping that my css would remain mostly intact with what Amazon's tool produces.

As far as I can tell with my experimenting with KDP, what's produced is destined for the Kindle store, which is not what I want.

But, if you are trying to create a "Kindle book," isn't the intended destination Kindle devices? I mean, what's the purpose, if it isn't?

Why not just convert your ePUB to MOBI? Using Previewer, or KindleGen? I don't think I understand what the issue is here. When you build a MOBI from an ePUB, your CSS stays precisely intact. It's not like Calibre. ????

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