![]() ![]() I can’t really do a better job at describing the software than Amazon does “Kindle Previewer is a free desktop application that enables authors, publishers and eBook service providers to preview how their books will appear when delivered to Kindle customers, and makes it easy to audit books for different screen sizes, display orientations and font sizes.”Īn important distinction to make from the outset. How the heck do you open and preview your eBook?Īllow me to introduce the free Kindle Previewer software from Amazon. They need you to make sure you are happy before it gets published on the shelves of Amazon. I tried that but it is not being recognized as a dictionary.You recently received a copy of your eBook file from your publishing team to preview. There are also more detailed instructions for Mobipocket Creator here, which tell you to directly move the generated. We recommend using EPUB or DOCX format directly for previewing and publishing your book on Kindle. Kindle Previewer does not support this file, which has either been created using an older version of KindleGen or a third party application. The problem with this approach is that Kindle Previewer throws the error: And there are instructions here that advise converting the file to PRC using Mobipocket Creator and then opening it with Kindle Previewer. What could I try?Įdit: To add to the things I have tried: there is an apparently closed source script here that unfortunately doesn't support inflections, so does not work. Currently I am using Python, but I'd also use other languages if it is necessary. ![]() Maybe it would even be a good idea to output the words + inflections into some other easier dictionary format and then convert it to a MOBI using an existing library and leaving out the XHTML generation completely. So I thought there should maybe be an easier way to do this, or maybe a library that helps doing this. The generation of the epub file is also a bit complicated by the fact that you probably need to split the XHTML files into many smaller files, which should maybe be 250 kb in size, because e-readers tend to struggle with parsing larger files. I discovered that this is not trivial, and a check using epubcheck revealed many hard-to-understand errors in my generated file. Then I attempted to create the epub file myself, using a sample file taken from this tutorial. Calibre suggests to turn on the "heuristic mode" if you run into this error, which I tried, but which did not finish running after hours of runtime. ![]() The normal XHTML -> epub conversion failed because the XHTML file was too large, according to an error message. I tried using Pandoc to do the conversion, which did not work because it stripped out all the specific HTML tags and only left in paragraphs. They want you to create an intermediate epub file. However, Kindle Previewer does not let you export XHTML files to MOBI. So I created a large XHTML file (23 MB or so) according to the Amazon specifications and opened it in Kindle Previewer, and it looked fine.
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