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Originally Posted by jhowell
The Kindle Previewer will usually only convert books that are in a supported language for Kindle eBooks. Russian is an odd exception in that it is allowed even though it is not supported.
One workaround is to set the language in the metadata of your book to a supported language, such as English, before conversion. The main downside of doing that is language-dependant features, such as dictionaries, won't function correctly. |
"One would think" Previewer would yield a message like 'unsupported language'.
Unfortunately I need to use a dictionary, so that's that (unless I muck with the dictionary as well). MOBI will do.
Note Russian is 'unsupported' only for purposes of KDP. Kindle platform supports Russian (Russian UI in all of the apps, and translation dictionaries for Kindle), and there are thousands of Russian language books in the Kindle Store, but I guess you have to establish a 'publisher' relationship with Amazon to get them in there.
One of my peeves about the Kindle Store Russian language ebooks is that most (or at least the ones I have purchased) seem to disallow TTS. What is the point of that?
Polish is also 'unsupported' but Previewer does not complain about it, either.
So it's as if Czech has been singled out for this 'punishment'.
IIRC, 'unsupported' means Amazon does not have staff fluent enough in that language to do whatever minimal curation they want to be able to do. Apparently they have people with literacy in Manx, though.
And what's with 'paperback only' support mean? hardcover and ebook is okay but not paperback?
or in the case of Latin, 'paperback and hardcover only)? What have they got against having Latin texts in Kindle Store?
Weirdos.