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Quoth · 10-09-2021, 10:09 AM

Amazon runs some sort of check. So does Google and Smashwords. You can fail one and not the others.
Smashwords seems to be the most fussy.

Certainly I now make sure I pass the Ladybird bug check in Calibre Editor and epub check, which I have also in the editor.

I also manually check every TOC/NCX action in Calibre Viewer and also any links, including footnote type with an explicit return link. Those can be wrong and yet book pass everyone's tests/checks.

Note if you reference fonts and they are not embedded and don't exist on the target everything will seem OK on desktop, or on any ereader or phone or tablet where in the past you manually added the fonts.

So I never add fonts to my Kindle, Kobo, phones or tablets and check that the ebook fonts do work. If I've done something new with a font I check that the fall back no fonts versions of KF7 works OK on a Kindle DXG and also on a PW3 with Amazon default rather than "Publisher Fonts", because few people with Kindles select "Publisher Fonts".

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,176 Karma: 105212035 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Amazon runs some sort of check. So does Google and Smashwords. You can fail one and not the others. Smashwords seems to be the most fussy. Certainly I now make sure I pass the Ladybird bug check in Calibre Editor and epub check, which I have also in the editor. I also manually check every TOC/NCX action in Calibre Viewer and also any links, including footnote type with an explicit return link. Those can be wrong and yet book pass everyone's tests/checks. Note if you reference fonts and they are not embedded and don't exist on the target everything will seem OK on desktop, or on any ereader or phone or tablet where in the past you manually added the fonts. So I never add fonts to my Kindle, Kobo, phones or tablets and check that the ebook fonts do work. If I've done something new with a font I check that the fall back no fonts versions of KF7 works OK on a Kindle DXG and also on a PW3 with Amazon default rather than "Publisher Fonts", because few people with Kindles select "Publisher Fonts".