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ldolse · 11-10-2011, 06:03 PM

For one thing, I wouldn't go html -> Mobi -> ePub, Kindlegen will generally destroy a lot of detail that the mobi format doesn't support. Depending on the formatting you chose to use you may not notice this, but either way Kindlegen needs to convert your html to Mobi markup language, which is most definitely not good html. Calibre then needs to convert that back to real xhtml, and generally does a good job, which is why B&N didn't have a problem. Calibre can go directly from html to ePub.

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....specific-order

Whether you use the html or mobi source, you can try opening the ePub in Sigil and run a check with its Flight Crew epub checking feature - fix any errors it gives you and see if that does the trick. Without the actual errors we can't provide much more help.

11-10-2011, 06:03 PM	#2
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123455 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	For one thing, I wouldn't go html -> Mobi -> ePub, Kindlegen will generally destroy a lot of detail that the mobi format doesn't support. Depending on the formatting you chose to use you may not notice this, but either way Kindlegen needs to convert your html to Mobi markup language, which is most definitely not good html. Calibre then needs to convert that back to real xhtml, and generally does a good job, which is why B&N didn't have a problem. Calibre can go directly from html to ePub. http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....specific-order Whether you use the html or mobi source, you can try opening the ePub in Sigil and run a check with its Flight Crew epub checking feature - fix any errors it gives you and see if that does the trick. Without the actual errors we can't provide much more help. Last edited by ldolse; 11-10-2011 at 06:07 PM.