Thread: Kindle Scribe Update 5.16.2
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Old 05-26-2023, 07:19 AM   #20
tomsem
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Something else I noticed in the online PR converter and the PR viewer on the Scribe:
  • there is no apparent limit of how many TOC entries a PDF file has that gets send to kindle (the one I tried had over 400 entries in the TOC) - Kindle Create for homemade PR still cannot have more than 100
  • the hierarchy of the TOC is completely preserved, but not displayed completely smart - as in you don't see how deep you are in, just that you are in - sometimes it helps to collapse and then expand an TOC item to see if the next (expandable) item is inside that one or on the same or higher level (if it doesn't disappear when collapsing, it is not a sub or subsub part of it)
  • links work - both inside and external to webpages (kind of obvious, but better than before)
  • crop margins gets rid of margins - no menu item, but if selecting the smallest margins that is what it is. very annoying it sometimes forgets to crop the margins after another book type was opened and you have to enable it again with turning the margins to a different setting and back to the smallest
  • there is no more percentage display at the bottom (same as PDF and comic)

In short, I love the new PR on the Scribe. It finally has the benefits of the PDF viewer (search, lookup, highlighting), PR viewer (write on book), comic viewer (crop margins, show full screen including no more wasted space of percent, page, location). It does the TOC a little better than the PDF viewer - the TOC of PDF is completely flat with nothing to indicate the hierarchy.
They must have fixed something in Send To Kindle, as I was getting PDFs rejected for having too many PDF bookmarks. If only they'd fix Kindle Create too (doesn't allow multilevel either) -- but I mostly only use that for experimentation.

I will try my multi-level ~150 bookmark PDF again to see if it works now.

And yes, there was report on Reddit that the personal organizer PDF they were using has all of the links preserved.

The one thing that is worse is that page turns seem slower than PDF. But I need to check this again. And it's still early days; it looks like there's going to be page animation at some point so they can probably improve performance.
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