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Originally Posted by jhowell
The Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines describes acceptable EPUB content and formatting, but it is incomplete, inaccurate, and some parts do not apply to personal documents.
EPUBs sent via email are passed through Amazon's kindlegen program for conversion to the Kindle formats that will be delivered to the user's devices and apps. That conversion process is less forgiving than the converter built into calibre.
You can try running your failed EPUBs though the Check Book function of the calibre ebook editor or EPUBCheck to look for problems. You can also use Amazon's Kindle Previewer to get Amazon-specific error messages. |
Yep. All good ideas if an epub fails to go through.
I find that if Kindle Previewer does not have any complaints about an epub it will usually be just fine going to the Kindle Document Service and will display just as well on my Kindle Oasis 2 as an epub/kepub loaded on my Kobo. In some instances, better, as I recently discovered that Kobo has less built-in font support for some HTML entities than Amazon does, sigh...
By the way, for those concerned about covers, if your epub
has a cover, it should remain intact *inside the book*, while you won't see it as a thumbnail while browsing your Kindle library, you should be able to view it if desired. Either by navigating to "Cover" or by back-paging to the very beginning of the book.
Yeah, it's not what we
want, but at least it's
possible to view the cover art, if the book contains it.