Kindle eBook Reader
Kindle is the popular eBook reader sold by amazon
A SDK is in limited beta phase: http://www.amazon.com/kdk
Questions tagged [kindle]
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Creating eBooks using Affinity Publisher
I started using Affinity Publisher and then realized that it doesn't export to .mobi or .epub files.
So, I exported to PDF and then tried to convert it to an eBook format using Kindle Create. It gives me an output in .kpf format...
My question is…
Nirdesha Munasinghe
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How can I use Ghostscript to pre-process pdfs for older Kindles?
I have an old Kindle Dx. Owing to disabilities, I can't use tablets or other touch devices, and I transfer pdfs to the Kindle to read them. It requires pre-processing.
What is a good option to pre-process pdfs without rasterizing them?
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Kindle browser limitations for google firebase
I'm trying to develop a very simple web app and deploy it through Google Firebase to use on my Kindle. While I've had no problem getting it work on modern browsers, the Kindle's very primitive "Experimental Browser", as Amazon calls it, doesn't seem…
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Image CSS not changing for iPad kindle from MOBI KindleGen
I'm writing an ebook in HTML and converting to MOBI with Kindlegen. I want to make sure the images never take up the whole page. However some images are doing just that.
I've tried multiple CSS styles but nothing seems to change. I'm testing on…
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How to open specific book on kindle by objective c?
I'm developing an app related to books, in the book list the user marked the book they also have on amazon kindle, then when they click the "READ" button, the kindle app (iOS) open with that book opened.
my question is how to do it. I can open the…
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How to get Django Book on Kindle?
The Django Book is freely available online. A couple questions:
Is it possible to get it for free on the Kindle?
If so, how?
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Don't have the Kindle treat Company, Inc. as first/last name
I'm working on a Kindle eBook for a company. They want the author field to display as "Company, Inc." This works fine in Mobipocket, but when I open the file in Kindle for PC, it diplays as "Inc. Company". It appears that Kindle interprets the comma…
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Given a ISBN/ASIN, how to get the list of all books by the same author (including kindle only books)?
Most kindle books don't have ISBN, just ASIN. Given a ISBN or ASIN, is it possible to get the list of all books by the same author (both paper and ebooks)? Does amazon have some kind of author ID, that uniquely identifies authors?
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CSS Poetry EBook- Line Wrapping with Hanging Indent
I need help coding a poetry book. The book will be available on amazon and readers will be able to change the text size. I need the lines to wrap with a hanging indent if they are longer than the width of the reader's device.
The book is currently…
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Convert SVG textPath to transform matrix
I have in an e-book a title page formatted with SVG, using textPath to place text along a curve:
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Restrict app to be installed on android tablets and kindle devices only
Until now I was restricting my app to only run on tablets by having something like this in the manifest file:
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How to link to amazon web store from browser in a kindle?
I want to redirect the user to kindle web store directly from my website. Is there a way to do it? I already tried using "amzn://apps/android?asin=B004FRX0MY" but I guess this works only to redirect user to another app when he is already inside web…
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Silk browser of Kindle has a download bug?
Suppose that I want to write a web page with laravel5 (a PHP framework) to download a mobi/awz3 file from the Kindle's web browser directly. The code looks like (please refer to the link given above for the detail):
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link is not working at kindle app for iphone 6s?
Hyperlinks are malfunctioning. For instance, if “Appendix F” is hyperlinked to go to exactly that place, the entirety of “Appendix F” in the text is blue and underlined, however, only clicking on the “F” gets one there. Clicking “Appendix” itself,…
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attachments from Mailgun to kindle
I tried to send a self generated mobi file to kindle through mailgun. I tried lots of times, below are the logs for the message status
"delivery-status": {
"tls": false,
"mx-host": "",
"code": 499,
"description": null,
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