Clickable Image in mobi

[timchamill]

Hi Folks,

I have the following line of html in my Kindle content (I added the comment markup for this post so it shows up as html instead of the link!) :

<!--
<p class="center"><a href="http://www.burningteddy.com/Books/Unity Visual Studio/Figures/Figure 1 1.jpg"> <img src="1image001.jpg" alt="Input Devices, CPU, Secondary Memory, and Output Devices"></a></p>
-->

This yields a clickable image when I open the html in Firefox and it yields a clickable image when I convert to epub format and open it with the calibre E-Book Viewer. When I convert to mobi format, though, the image is no longer clickable (there's no hand when I hover over the image and clicking the image has no effect) when I open it with the Kindle Reader for PC app.

I've attached a zip file with the source html, image file, epub content, and mobi content. Any ideas why this isn't a clickable image in mobi format?

Cheers,
Tim

[kovidgoyal]

Convert to azw3 instead.

[timchamill]

The azw3 format works just like I need, and I can open it fine in the Kindle Reader for PC and the Kindle Previewer.

Unfortunately, the KDP site won't let me upload an azw3 file for my book manuscript, so I can't actually publish it!

Is there a way to get the clickable images in mobi?

Thanks,
Tim

[jhowell]

Since you are producing a book to publish, rather than just for your own use, I suggest using Amazon's tools for the conversion.

Amazon's Kindle Previewer 3 can convert from either EPUB or DOCX to Master MOBI, which includes both the old-style MOBI and AZW3 in one file. This is the format most acceptable to Amazon. (Use the File>Export function to save the Master MOBI.) It also lets you know whether or not your book will support Enhanced Typesetting for the best reading experience on newer Kindle devices.

(For the future you are better off asking this sort of question in the Kindle Formats forum. That forum is used for technical discussion by those who publish Kindle books.)

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah amazon is very fussy about accepting books created with anything other than it's own tools. They just love looking like monopolists.

[timchamill]

Thanks to both of you. I now have a workflow that gets me a mobi book the way I wanted:

1. Use calibre to convert html to azw3 format
2. Import azw3 into Kindle Previewer 3 and save as mobi (Kindle Previewer messes up all my code formatting when I import an epub, but azw3 works fine)

Cheers,
Tim

[timchamill]

I spoke too soon; the mobi that Kindle Previewer 3 generates for me from the azw3 files always results in an error when I try to upload for publishing. I'll move over to the other forum as jhowell suggested.

Cheers,
Tim

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by timchamill

I spoke too soon; the mobi that Kindle Previewer 3 generates for me from the azw3 files always results in an error when I try to upload for publishing.

If you give the Previewer a MOBI or AZW3 file then it doesn't do any conversion and just gives the same file back to you (with a .mobi extension) if you export. For it to do anything you need to give at an EPUB (or DOCX) file.