[bobinsc]

New here, hoping to find some answers that keep eluding me.

I desperately need help defining Chapters. I've spent maybe 40 or 50 hours (off and on) over the last couple years trying to figure out how to put chapters into an AZW3 file. I'm Using Calibre 6.6.3, converting ePub or PDF to AZW3 for use on a Kindle Keyboard.

According to what I've read, Calibre should convert h1 or h2 tags to chapters, and maybe it does, but they don't "act" like chapters on my KK. When reading an Amazon-purchased AZW3 book I can use the 4-way navigation "left" and "right" buttons to skip to the chapter breaks. When reading an ePub book converted to AZW3 I can usually navigate to the title page and toc, but nothing else.

Yes, I've tried using the calibre wizard to customize the toc Xpath expressions during conversion and the conversion seems to go OK, but there is no chapter navigation when I'm done. I've tried letting calibre create it's own toc, which it does, but it doesn't work for "next/prev" navigation. I've tried hand-editing the toc.ncx file, making sure the ids match the individual chapter file ids. Still, the only chapter navigation that works are the ones that made it though the original ePub conversion, which is usually just title page and toc.

What is really frustrating is that when reading the book, everything is fine. The KK remembers my last page read and takes me there when I turn it back on. BUT...if I make the mistake of hitting the left or right navigation button it takes me to the title page, AND sets that as the last page read. So now I have to guess where I was in the book and it takes 5-10 minutes of hunting to find it again. Very annoying.

I have done many Internet searches and can't find anything specific about chapter tags in AZW3 files. Should I be using a different file format? Is there an easier way to do this?

Even if there is a better way to convert ePubs I'll still need to know how to manually create chapter tags because I have a bunch of pdf files to convert.