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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Absolutely. I just don't want the Kindle book to go up for sale on Amazon. I want to upload it here. Yes, it's for Kindle devices.
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okay...good to know.
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Thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know, that the CSS stays intact. I was reading another thread started by FrustratedReader ("Dual Mobi. How Compatible?") and I learned from Doitsu that the MOBI created by Kindle Previewer is a dual one which will work on old Kindles as well. So that's good.
One downside is that the size of the MOBI is 3,327 kb while the EPUB is 766 kb; massive bloat. 3 1/3 megs versus 3/4s of a meg. Sheesh. (I had a boss who used the word moby as an adjective for something huge; very appropriate here.)
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Sweet Moses on a pony, it's not BLOAT. They're not the same thing. Inside the MOBI are 3 sets of files--a complete copy of the source, a KF7 mobi and a KF8 mobi. That's not
bloat. It's making sure that everyone who downloads it gets a file that will work on their Kindle. If you split them and people have more than one type of Kindle, they'll have to download both? I have both KF7 and KF8 devices. I really don't want to have to download two different files, just in case I decide to switch devices.
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What about the KFX format? Is there a way I can create that (instead of MOBI) and keep my CSS intact? I always format with text-align: left for a ragged right margin but lots of people prefer a flush right margin. If I remember right with KFX people can switch between ragged right and flush right, while with this MOBI it's locked to whatever the CSS says.
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It's not the coding inasmuch as the device. We make all our books with no alignment, so that the reader can change it, but 99% of all Kindle readers automatically justify. You can make a KFX using a plugin with Calibre, but not everyone wants that format.
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Overall I'm glad to know that the MOBI file has my intact CSS; this gives me another device to test with; I'd been ignoring the Kindle because I was thinking that I had to use Calibre to create a Kindle file but that would change the CSS.
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As you see, no.
Hitch