EPUB->AZW3 doesnt show first pages with title and author on Kindle

Musrar · Yesterday, 05:11 PM

As the title says, when I converted an EPUB I made from scratch to AZW3 the first two pages (part0000.html and part0001.html if you edit the azw3 file in Calibre) won't display correctly on my kindle. A blank page appears instead.

The cover page displays fine, and the start of the book (part0002.html onwards) as well, but I don't get why the first two pages don't display correctly.

I attached the two files if you have time to fiddle with them. You'll see they are very simple in terms of structure and css, especially the epub file (since I made it from scratch).

JSWolf · Yesterday, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Musrar

As the title says, when I converted an EPUB I made from scratch to AZW3 the first two pages (part0000.html and part0001.html if you edit the azw3 file in Calibre) won't display correctly on my kindle. A blank page appears instead.

The cover page displays fine, and the start of the book (part0002.html onwards) as well, but I don't get why the first two pages don't display correctly.

I attached the two files if you have time to fiddle with them. You'll see they are very simple in terms of structure and css, especially the epub file (since I made it from scratch).

In the ePub, edit the OPF and replace <guide/> with...

Code:

  <guide>
    <reference href="start.xhtml" title="Start" type="start"/>
  </guide>

It may work.

Musrar · Today, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

In the ePub, edit the OPF and replace <guide/> with...

Code:

  <guide>
    <reference href="start.xhtml" title="Start" type="start"/>
  </guide>

It may work.

Thanks for the input. Sadly, your solution didn't work, nor did the fiddling I did based on your suggestion. In the end, what I did is remove the text type from the azw3, leaving only the toc and the cover (and I suspect neither the toc appears at the beginning, but it's less of an issue):

Code:

  <guide>
    <reference type="toc" href="text/part0009.html#8IL21-a0e11e7239964d8e9cbd1281b95542bb" title="Table of Contents"/>
    <reference type="cover" href="images/00001.jpeg"/>
    <reference type="other.ms-coverimage-standard" href="images/00001.jpeg"/>
    <reference type="other.ms-coverimage" href="images/00001.jpeg"/>
  </guide>

However, the issue wasn't here. The issue was in the css class Calibre assigns converted azw3. In my case my book has a vrtl class I created to display vertical text.
Here are all the styles of my epub:

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* Styles for 不明 */

html,
.hltr {
-webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
-webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
}
.vrtl {
-webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl;
-webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}
body {
margin-left: 1em;
margin-right: 1em;
writing-mode:tb-rl;
-webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl;
line-break: normal;
-epub-line-break: normal;
-webkit-line-break: normal;
}


p{
      font-size: 1em;
    line-height: 1.5;
    text-align: justify;
    text-indent: 1em;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    white-space: normal;
    word-spacing: normal;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0 0
  
  }
  
.title{
      text-align: center;
          page-break-before: always;
  }
  
  .author{
      text-align: center;
  }

In the converted azw3, each html file has a vrtl class which looks like this:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="vrtl">

Code:

.vrtl {
  -webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}

But in the first pages for the title calibre assigns a newly created class named calibre:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="ja" class="vrtl">
  <head><meta charset="UTF-8"/>
    <title>サイレントウイッチ　０１</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/0003.css"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/0002.css"/>
    
  </head>
  <body class="calibre1">
<h1 class="title" id="calibre_pb_0">サイレントウイッチ　０１</h1>
    <h3 class="author">依空まつり</h3>
  </body>
</html>

Code:

.calibre {
  -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
}

which apparently makes the first pages not display at all. It seems to be this mix of vertical and horizontal writing mode. When I wrote the vertical class to the first pages, they displayed correctly in the kindle.

JSWolf · Today, 06:11 PM

Try downloading a copy of Kindlegen and convert the ePub. It will convert to a dual-format mobi. You can then use KindleUnpack to split that and get the KF8 which you can then add back to calibre to then add to your Kindle and see if this works.

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