Thread: What is a perfect procedure for generate a amazon kindle mobi file?
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Old 06-27-2019, 04:09 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
I have to insist that for the purpose of uploading to the Mobileread library that the source EPUB in the combined mobi is bloat, especially if the epub version is also uploaded to the EPUB section of the library.

Please follow Doitsu's advice and use the -dont_append_source option.

The combined mobi is also convenient for people that want to email books to their kindles and also want to customize fonts. Amazon will mail the stripped out mobi or azw3 to the kindle dpending on which one it can handle. (I have never emailed anything to a kindle, so I don't know all the details.)
Ok, if I can remember to do that. Using the Kindle Previewer is easier and brainless compared to opening a DOS box and navigating to where I've extracted kindlegen. It saves about a third of the file size, but it's still "moby" (i.e., huge, like Moby Dick); the -2pieces one is with -dont_append_source:

Code:
2,503,060 achmed abdulla-short stories-combined-2pieces.mobi
  797,062 achmed abdulla-short stories-combined.epub
3,299,978 achmed abdulla-short stories-combined.mobi
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