Mobigen Does anyone know the way to sideload a MOBI file to the Kindle for iPad application?

[Karthiksugumar]

Does anyone know the way to sideload a MOBI file to the Kindle for iPad application? when I convert the mobi to an azk file using Kindle Previewer. When i try to load the azk file in kindle ipad. It cannot loaded and nothing throw shows error message. Any one can help for us.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Karthiksugumar

Does anyone know the way to sideload a MOBI file to the Kindle for iPad application? when I convert the mobi to an azk file using Kindle Previewer. When i try to load the azk file in kindle ipad. It cannot loaded and nothing throw shows error message. Any one can help for us.

If you sideloaded the azk file via iTunes, it should work.
In rare cases AZK files won't open if the source files were invalid.
For more information, see this thread.

[Notjohn]

What about the iPad emulation on the online preview (after you've uploaded to the KDP)? What do you see there?

How did you generate the e-book? People sometimes complain about the way Apple devices with recent OS display Kindle books. This may be the reason (otherwise a mystery to me) why Amazon recommends saving the Word file as html, then uploading the html to the KDP.

[Karthiksugumar]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

If you sideloaded the azk file via iTunes, it should work.
In rare cases AZK files won't open if the source files were invalid.
For more information, see this thread.

When we upload the AZK output in the IPAD, the devices seems to be hanged. We tried in several devices, but result seems to be same.

All device rendering properly the fixed format. Except amazon fixed format shows overlapping issues in paragraph. How to view this amazon fixed format and find exact issues. Any one can help for us.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Karthiksugumar

When we upload the AZK output in the IPAD, the devices seems to be hanged. We tried in several devices, but result seems to be same.

Then either your file is bad, (the source was bad), or you're not doing it right. Can you please tell us exactly how you're sideloading it? Did you connect your iPad to iTunes, via USB, on your computer? And then load the book file to Kindle for iPad, through the Shared Files portion of the app? So, after you open your iPad in iTunes, go to APPS, then FILE SHARING, and then select "Kindle" (under Apps, at the bottom of the same screen), and then drag-drop the AZK file to the "Kindle Documents" section?

Is that what you're doing? On a registered device, via iTunes? Is that right?

All device rendering properly the fixed format. Except amazon fixed format shows overlapping issues in paragraph. How to view this amazon fixed format and find exact issues. Any one can help for us.

What device are you viewing this FXL MOBI on? Exactly? And what's the view window set at? I don't know how on earth you're getting overlapping paragraphs, in a FXL view. Are you trying to view this on one of the desktop readers, perhaps?

Small rant about FXL and Amazon production tools:

Spoiler:

For what it's worth, FXL for MOBI is just a really bad idea, unless you're talking poetry, a Kids' image book, or a certain type of coffee table book. I've now seen a lot of Fixed-layout books (most created either with Kindle Kids' Book Creator or TextBook Creator), because those apps allow people who don't know HOW to make an eBook, make one with a PDF. That's all well and good, but FXL text is NOT ZOOMABLE. A text-heavy page should never be FXL.

I've posted about this on the KDP forums several times; using KTC or KKBC is not a replacement for knowing how to make an eBook correctly. Doesn't mean that this is what you did; this is just an observation about a topic that is REALLY bugging me.

</hobbyhorse>

Hitch

[Notjohn]

Loved the rant (and saved it for future reference)!

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Notjohn

Loved the rant (and saved it for future reference)!

I've already said it several times on the forums, and of course, was promptly ignored. They think that simply drag-dropping a PDF onto a magic tool, that then in turn preserves their layout, is the bees knees.

What they don't know is all the reasons NOT to use it. But honestly, I'm done lecturing about it. I know all too well from my own business that people have an incredibly hard time visualizing the reality of big pages on small devices. They think that everything will work like a PDF dropped onto a phone; that users will zoom and pan-n-scan around the document. They don't think about how bloody ANNOYING it would be to read an entire book that way, nor how ridiculous a huge text-heavy page will look, on, say, a 6" Fire or even a PPW.

Hitch

[Notjohn]

Originally Posted by Hitch

They think that everything will work like a PDF dropped onto a phone; that users will zoom and pan-n-scan around the document. They don't think about how bloody ANNOYING it would be to read an entire book that way, nor how ridiculous a huge text-heavy page will look, on, say, a 6" Fire or even a PPW.

When I ask for review copies of books, I always add "or an epub or Kindle version." One time, a publisher obliged by sending me a PDF of the print version, two pages up. It was a PITA and a half, reading it on my then-7-inch Fire.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Notjohn

When I ask for review copies of books, I always add "or an epub or Kindle version." One time, a publisher obliged by sending me a PDF of the print version, two pages up. It was a PITA and a half, reading it on my then-7-inch Fire.

Yeah. We've been asked to make "ePDF" copies of books, for that purpose--mostly, for various reviewers that still refuse to take eBooks. The irony is, most reviewers refuse to take eBooks, because they can't RESELL them like a print book and pocket the cash. But they can't resell a bloody PDF, either. And I find it hard to believe that a commercial book reviewer doesn't own an e-Reader by this point in time.

Hitch

[Notjohn]

But you know, except in that one case, the publishers ALWAYS send a print edition. Most recently Oxford University Press, which has a Contact form for reviewers on its website, delivered the book by FedEx Second Day Air -- but never responded to my query.

I offer the book to the university library if I don't want it for myself. Or if it isn't worth either, I pass it along to someone else. For that reason, I generally opt to buy the hardcover if (as is usually the case) it's only a dollar or two more than the e-book. A print edition is worth a lot more than the digital equivalent.

[mattmc]

Originally Posted by Karthiksugumar

When we upload the AZK output in the IPAD, the devices seems to be hanged. We tried in several devices, but result seems to be same.

Doitsu is right, my friend:

Originally Posted by Doitsu

If you sideloaded the azk file via iTunes, it should work.
In rare cases AZK files won't open if the source files were invalid.
For more information, see this thread.

What it sounds like, is that your K4iOS app is "hanging" (freezing, pausing) for a few seconds, as it transforms your AZK file into a KCR file. Something is erroring, so the book never appears in your K4iOS library.

There is a way to view the error logs, depending on your iOS version (though I didn't find them all that helpful). And you can always try doing a search for U+2028 and U+2029. Otherwise, you may have to procedurally remove content from the book until you find the cause.

[Karthiksugumar]

fixed layout ebook from Amazon and is using the Kindle app to view the book on his ipad. He is seeing a different (very ugly) font for the text and is still seeing overlapping lines of type.

Above mention issues are rendering properly in all device. I don't know how to view this files in windows kindle apps or else IOS kindle ipad.

[Karthiksugumar]

Which device support for this Amazon kindle fixed layout ebooks for ipad

[Karthiksugumar]

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Above mention overlap issues are rendering properly in all devices. Which device this issues shows the kindle fixed layout ebooks. please help us.

[Karthiksugumar]

How to find out this issues and which format i can use get this issues