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Old 09-02-2020, 09:50 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by impasto View Post
The problems appeared in Kindle paperwhite 4, 2018. The biggest problem was that the links in toc didnt point to the correct location. I will probably be able to sort it out. Maybe there was a thread on this for fixed layout (sorry, fixed layout is much more appropriate for my ebook)?

I cant keep asking the guy for help, and will probably buy the latest paperwhite.
I hate to tell you this--but Phillip, below, is right. A PPW can't download a fixed-layout ebook. Not from the Amazon library/store. Hell, I don't even know how you're sideloading it. The only form of FXL that can be loaded and read on an eInk of any kind is the old "Kindle Kids' book Creator" file. Those that were MOBIs.

If you mean that you used Kindle Create...no, you can't mean that. Are you using Kindle Comic Creator, the old app?

Amazon has basically d/ced using any fixed-layout ebooks on eInks. They do still allow the KKBC books to be read on eInks, but for anything made with KC, KTC, etc., they're limiting downloads to Fire tablets and all the "K4..." apps. K4iPAD, K4PC, K4Mac and so forth.

Is that what you did? You used Kindle Comic Creator, the old Amazon app? From about 2012-2013?

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Originally Posted by phillipgessert View Post
I wasn't aware Paperwhite could even read a fixed-layout. Learn something new every day. Well, it seems you're ready for the inevitable pushback on that, but I wanted to add that while you may feel the book is best served that way, if Amazon disagrees you will still have a problem. In any case, the problem you're describing does not sound like one you'd be able to diagnose by trying different devices. Something has gone wrong earlier in the process.

ETA: I see now from another post this is a book of single-panel comics, I doubt Amazon would take issue with that being fixed-layout.
Amazon only takes issue with fxl if a customer complains; (which they do more and more, as increasingly more authors take the lazy way out and load a PDF of a novel into KC and push a button to make Print Replica); but as I mention, above they have rigorously limited what devices may be used to download them, the past 18 months or so.

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