[Hitch]

Originally Posted by momoe

Thank you all for responding.

I was kinda aware of this being discussed in other threads, however I was doing my best to match kindle creates template.

If you're thinking of using KC to make a print book, that's one thing.

@Quoth, yes I'm aware of DPI and screen sizes vary depending on the device, however Kindle should have a more accurate method for re-flowing the text with accurate page sizes.

And how would you correct that? Exactly? What, a page every 250 words? MMPBs get closer to 500w/p. A 6x9" trade paperback? Well, then you're at around 350, IF you mean a 12pt font and 14-16pt leading. That's what they tried to do, with locations.

I've been doing this, relatively, a long time, and there's no good way to do it. You have far too many variables, and unless you're going to straitjacket the book producers with a single standard--and think about the unintended consequences of that--there's no viable way. I mean, if you tell producers that they must use 250/w/p, for the eBook standard, does that mean that they should then format their paperbacks that way, so that the two conform? Boy, talk about wasted paper and dead trees! If Jane reads on her iPad and Suzie on her Voyage, they are not EVER going to agree on what the standard should be.

To correct your font size comment, Kindle seems to use the web font size standard of 16pts, so I do the base font that way from my 12pt LibreWriter fonts. It seems to come out 1:1 with kindle store books.

Correct? Why do you think that? Are you saying that 1em =16pt font?

I have experimented with formatting my LibreWriter page dimensions to see if that affects the Kindle conversion page count, and the Calibre import base fonts but neither seem to have any affect.

Why would it? The location count's based on characters, like ADE, not page sizes, so I must be misunderstanding what you're saying.

I'm wondering if the input profile has anything to do with it. @Doitsu I haven't looked into the NCX file your'e describing there as the Kindle format is a bit of a mystery from my ePub formatting days. So I'll look into those and these other plugins mentioned here and report back soon.

Nope, the NCX has nothing to do with it at all, or the input profile. Not the way you're thinking.

What Doits is telling you is accurate. You can generate an eBook with what's referred to as "real page numbers," but Amazon will NOT use them--even if they are present in the file--unless or until a matching print book is published and EVEN THEN, they will not facilitate it unless in their sole opinion, there's a good reason for it. So, for a novel, probably never. For a research book, they'll take a hard look at it. But even then, it's not guaranteed.

Hitch