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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
In a single swoop, ~30 of my conversions got hit with KQNs. And the craziest is the TOC being multiple levels deep:
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- Part 1
-- Chapter 1
--- Subchapter 1.1 <---- KQN Issue!!!!
Our most illustrious user, Hitch, told me it's most likely because "Kindle for PC can't display <h3> or deeper"... |
Yes, we're having to fix some of these, too and my clients are
screaming like stuck pigs.
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While it's a good idea to try to correct this sort of thing if/when you can, it's insane to strictly enforce it.
Link Rot is natural, and a large percent of all URLs die each year.
Back in 2017, I linked to the fantastic article "When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks" discussing that...
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Tip: Calibre Editor's Tools > External Links > Check External Links is absolutely fantastic for quickly checking for dead links.
Before publishing an ebook, I always try to preemptively squash all dead links. (And since many books I work on a pre-publication... we can take care of it in Print as well.)
But once it's out in the wild... the amount of working URLs can only go down.
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Amazon's error message to the customer/us is now saying that we
should be using link archives to prevent link rot. Link archives! I went to Archive-it.org and my teeth are already grinding. First, there's no way to simply "join" or create an account. Then they want you to sit through a webinar, before you do ANYTHING else, and so on.
So, they suggested archiving using The WBM or The Internet Archive,which would give you an archived page link, yes, but it also means, for longer/bigger/more complex books, doing this one page/url at a time...rather laborious. I can't WAIT to see what self-pubs and authors will say when I start telling them THIS stuff. Oy....
Anyway...honestly, I have a lot of other crap on my plate and this is just making my damn head hurt.
Hitch