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Originally Posted by Oxford-eBooks
Is there a reliable way to preview on an iOS device pre-market?
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Amazon expects you to use their Kindle Previewer and trust that it renders books correctly for the various device types that you can choose in the program. In practice it is more or less correct for recent apps and devices and grossly inaccurate for showing how books will look on older ones.
The Kindle Previewer has an "Export" option to create files that can be sideloaded on older devices and on the Kindle for iOS app. You need to click on the "Save as type" field to select either .mobi (for old Kindles) or .azk (for the iOS app).
You can sideload a .azk file to the Kindle app on an iOS device using the file sharing feature of iTunes. This will give you are better idea of how the file will look when published, but it won't be exactly correct because these days Enhanced Typesetting (KFX format) is used almost everywhere.
If you want to see how a book looks with Enhanced Typesetting on an actual device your only option is to create a KFX file from the EPUB and sideload it on to the app or device. Unfortunately Amazon does not provide a way to create KFX format, other than actually publishing a book.
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KFX Output plugin for calibre can do it, but it takes knowledge of calibre and plugins to make it work. If you choose to try that then use the CLI interface to produce the a KFX file that most accurately matches what you would get by publishing on Amazon.