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Several months ago, I asked you all about how some of you are uploading ebooks to KDP in such a way that buyers download AZW3 files, whereas the way I had been doing it (making a mobi file in Calibre and uploading that to KDP), it was a mobi file that was downloaded. I cared because AZW3 files treat images slightly differently when you zoom in on them, and AZW3 files seemed to have wider line spacing, which I can't seem to change when I make the mobi files in Calibre.
Someone suggested I make ePubs in Calibre and then use Kindlegen to create a mobi file, which... I'm not 100% sure of how it works, but it seems to create a mobi file that is twice as large and delivers slightly different versions of the ebook to older and newer kindles. It seemed to work great - when I uploaded the Kindlegen files to KDP, and bought my own book, I was delivered an AZW3 file that had the wider line spacing and better treatment of zooming in on images. I then made the next several ebooks in this way.
Today I happened to put out my K3 and to my horror, those books don't have a table of contents! You click menu, then Go To, and table of contents is faded out! To make matters worse, I recently redid some of the images in one of our older Oz books (making them larger) and fixing a few other things. I asked KDP to push this to users because there were several important changes (including one illustration that had been missing), and the did! So now, my readers who have older kindles, had a book with a TOC replaced with one that doesn't have a TOC! ACK!
I did notice a few weeks ago that my cheapo windows phone kindle app wasn't showing a TOC for one of those books, but I thought it was just the bare bones app - there are a lot of things you can't do in the Windows Phone app that you can do on other platforms.
So, does anyone use Kindlegen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211) to create their ebooks? If so, have you tested them on a K3? So, to summarize, the same book, downloaded to a Voyage has a TOC, downloaded to a K3 does not.
Someone suggested I make ePubs in Calibre and then use Kindlegen to create a mobi file, which... I'm not 100% sure of how it works, but it seems to create a mobi file that is twice as large and delivers slightly different versions of the ebook to older and newer kindles. It seemed to work great - when I uploaded the Kindlegen files to KDP, and bought my own book, I was delivered an AZW3 file that had the wider line spacing and better treatment of zooming in on images. I then made the next several ebooks in this way.
Today I happened to put out my K3 and to my horror, those books don't have a table of contents! You click menu, then Go To, and table of contents is faded out! To make matters worse, I recently redid some of the images in one of our older Oz books (making them larger) and fixing a few other things. I asked KDP to push this to users because there were several important changes (including one illustration that had been missing), and the did! So now, my readers who have older kindles, had a book with a TOC replaced with one that doesn't have a TOC! ACK!
I did notice a few weeks ago that my cheapo windows phone kindle app wasn't showing a TOC for one of those books, but I thought it was just the bare bones app - there are a lot of things you can't do in the Windows Phone app that you can do on other platforms.
So, does anyone use Kindlegen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211) to create their ebooks? If so, have you tested them on a K3? So, to summarize, the same book, downloaded to a Voyage has a TOC, downloaded to a K3 does not.