The downside would be the need for the publisher to have various Kindle apps and devices to test with.Īnyone seriously producing ebooks does test anything using new formatting on the KF7, KF8 Amazon default and KF8 Publisher option, some apps and some epub eink ereaders before they upload to KDP anyway! That would allow the book to be seen in all of the various formats and flavors before releasing it. That you could download and view on your own Kindle apps and devices just as if you had purchased a finished and published book. We run Book Check, Epub Check, test all the links & TOC in Calibre Viewer and also if new styles are used we test on three kinds of real eink Kindle (KF7, and Kindle and Publisher Fonts mode of KF8), Lithium on Android, Aldiko on 4.3" Android, Sony 5" PRS350 and two models of Kobo. This means there is now no point to downloading a preview when you upload a verified epub2. A web view is not a practical proof medium and the so called Kindle Previewer is actually taking an epub2 and converting it and no assurance that it's the same result as a retail Kindle customer gets. So really then there is no preview file being offered. Indeed the KF8 and KFX from uploaded epub (test purchases!) and the mobi KF7 identical results to our locally created one. Amazon couldn't figure it and when I said my epub2 was perfect they wrote I should have been uploading that and not the docx. At the time, with no change here, the docx uploads stopped working properly because all the page breaks were getting removed. I never ever sent that mobi to Amazon for a Kindle, I just USB transferred it.Īmazon recommended to me that a known "correct" epub2 was the best to upload to KDP and better than docx. Before it the preview download was some sort of dual mobi, at least at one stage. ![]() But I guess then the preview is now then only use for docx upload. It seems particularly pointless if it's the same. (I tried uploading an EPUB and got back an identical file as the preview zip.) I am curious how the downloaded zip file differs from the original EPUB that you uploaded. I believe that this only worked for you because you started with a properly formatted EPUB as the source. Title should be KDP upload, then Kindle Preview epub loaded fine into the Calibre Editor and passed Book Check and Epub Check. zip and ‘Send to Kindle’ via email will work to get an azw3/KF8 version on later Kindles? epub and using an epub viewer rather than Kindle Previewer?ĭoes this also suggest rename of. Obviously this is a recent change and how reliable is the idea of simple rename of. We gave up testing KFX because if the KF8 is OK, the KFX will be too (See also epub2 vs kobo kepub we don't test kepub). ![]() Then we do a purchase of mobi version and azw3 versions by using accounts with suitable kindles. So no need to fire up the VM with a copy of windows and install Kindle Previewer?Īctually when we use an entirely new style or HTML construct we make a dual mobi and test on three different Kindles, one only does KF7. epub and it opens fine in Calibre's standalone ebook viewer on Linux. Previewing inside it after download revealed what looked a bit like an epub, so I renamed the. You either preview on the Internet Web page or they suggest download of the Kindle Previewer (which has no Linux version?) and they offer an HTML download. ![]() I just noticed that downloading a file direct to preview on a Kindle after upload processing is gone. For ordinary reflowable ebooks that Amazon gives out in Mobi (KF7), azw2/KF8 or KFX format the best upload is epub2. The option to upload mobi is gone a while ago.
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