Links of ebook jump to FootNote in kindle preview or kindle.

[njpig]

Hello,

I faced a problem with a ebook(please check the attachment) generated via recipe(BTW, I made some minor code changes on src\calibre\web\feeds\templates.py).

When the ebook is opened with kindle preview or kindle.The links of "Next" or "NextSect" in the navbar always jump to Footnote.

When the ebook is open with Calibre viewer, the links work as expected.

I'm totally confused. Could you guys give any advices on this?

Thanks, Fei.

[kovidgoyal]

When you are running recipes to create books for the kindle, use the kindle output profile and gnenerate them directly as mobi. then transfer to kindle using usb cable not email. Then the generated files will work witht he kindles special news user interface and you wont have header/footer templates at all.

[njpig]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

When you are running recipes to create books for the kindle, use the kindle output profile and gnenerate them directly as mobi. then transfer to kindle using usb cable not email. Then the generated files will work witht he kindles special news user interface and you wont have header/footer templates at all.

Since I like kfx format, this is my steps to create ebook:

1. Generate epub format with kindle oasis profile
2. Covert epub to kfx.

I'm curious the cause of this problem.

[kovidgoyal]

You'd have to ask in the thread for the kfx output plugin then.

[njpig]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You'd have to ask in the thread for the kfx output plugin then.

Actually, the problem can be seen when the epub format(the attachment I uploaded) generated in the step #1 is opened via the kindle previewer.

[kovidgoyal]

the kindle previewer doesnt display epub natively it converts it. I dont provide support for its conversion problems.

[jhowell]

Amazon's Kindle Previewer assumes that content which is organized using pairs of matching forward and back links is a footnote and should presented as a popup when the forward link is clicked. This works correctly in most cases but as your EPUB demonstrates it can cause problems if forward/back link pairs are used for navigation within a book's content.

You can fix this by changing the page layout so that forward links do not link directly to back links. For example by changing :

| PreviousSect | HomeIdx | NextSect |

to instead be:

| HomeIdx | PreviousSect | NextSect |

[njpig]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Amazon's Kindle Previewer assumes that content which is organized using pairs of matching forward and back links is a footnote and should presented as a popup when the forward link is clicked. This works correctly in most cases but as your EPUB demonstrates it can cause problems if forward/back link pairs are used for navigation within a book's content.

You can fix this by changing the page layout so that forward links do not link directly to back links. For example by changing :

| PreviousSect | HomeIdx | NextSect |

to instead be:

| HomeIdx | PreviousSect | NextSect |

It works. Thanks a lot!

In addition, I checked "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines", and found out another solution so that I can keep my original layout.

I just replaced the value of "PrevousSect" href:
.../feed_0/index.html
with
.../feed_0/index.html#article_0

Here is the related information from the section 7.1 of "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines":
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Amazon requires formatting footnotes with bi-directional hyperlinks (the text is linked to the footnote and the footnote is linked back to the text). This makes it easier for customers to return to the text after viewing the footnote. On some devices, the footnote is displayed in a pop-up window.

To avoid unintended footnote pop-ups, internal links that are not footnotes should not be formatted with bi-directional hyperlinks (A links to B and B links to A). Non-footnote links should use the format A links to B and B links to C instead. For example, links from a chapter-level table of contents to a chapter section should link back to the chapter heading.