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Making better ePubs and Kindle books

SVG Wrappers for Kindle?

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Keeping an image and its caption on the same page is easy in standard ePubs using an inline-block. Kindle’s KF8 format does NOT keep elements inside an inline-block together when there’s just enough room for an image without the caption. Text is kicked to the next page.

Kindle KF8 is not ePub

The usual methods for gluing images and captions on Kindle devices are to overlay text on the image itself or to split the book file above the image, forcing it and associated text to the next page. These two methods are bulletproof and currently recommended, but far from optimal. Text overlaid on an image may scale down too much on small screens and become illegible. Splitting the file can leave an extra large blank area on the preceding page. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: ePub Format, Kindle Publishing Tagged With: captions, SVG

Image plus Caption in ePub

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spacer An image and its caption (or short associated text) should be glued together on the same page. There’s an easy method for doing this in an ePub. Although it doesn’t work with Kindle KF8, it will serve you well in ePubs that you publish with iBooks or most other outlets. If you feed ePub files to Kindlegen, there’s no need to remove the CSS that does the trick; it will simply be ignored.

CSS Magic for ePubs

Create a div to wrap around the image and caption. Style the div using display: inline-block and page-break-inside: avoid. If the div should be centered, an outer wrap will help Adobe Digital Editions, which ignores centering in the inline-block. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: ePub Format Tagged With: captions, inline-block

Wrap Text around an Image

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You can wrap text around a "floated" image in your eBook for Kindle devices that support KF8 formatting. For older Mobi7 Kindles that do not support floated elements, display the image in a centered div or paragraph. To float an element, such as … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: ePub Format, Kindle Publishing Tagged With: floating images, image size

Feed Kindle Fire More Pixels

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If you create Kindle illustrations with much larger dimensions, they'll look amazing on Fire HD and HDX and still look great on Paperwhite, Kindle DX and older eInk devices. I'm convinced that targeting the high resolution HDX instead of the … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Kindle Publishing Tagged With: image size, Kindle Fire, maximum image size

Life after Sigil?

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Sigil, my ePub editor of choice, is no longer being developed. The last version still works great for ePub2 editing—clean code, no bloat, effortless file management, previews, metadata support, validation, and elegant design—but going forward to … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: ePub Format Tagged With: Sigil

Fix Missing Div Top Margins in Kindlegen

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In the most recent versions of Kindlegen, top margins on <div> elements are ignored. Older versions of Amazon's conversion tool routinely ignored bottom margins, so we all programmed ourselves to use top margins for vertical spacing. Now, divs … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Kindle Publishing

Useful Books for a Penny!

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Recently, I downloaded the following books because they were priced at one cent. Turns out, they have good information and are worth your time. Because we all develop our own work patterns, I don't do everything like the author, but I picked up some … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Kindle Publishing Tagged With: HTML, images, Word

Going Swimmingly?

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If you're here, your Word to ePub to Kindle conversion is probably not gliding along like a water bird on a placid lake. Unless you have a simply-formatted manuscript and HTML code makes you hyperventilate, submitting a Word document directly to … [Continue Reading]

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Word to ePub Tutorial

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The tutorial on making an ePub from a Word manuscript is in 4 parts: Word to ePub – 1: Introduction Word to ePub – 2: Preparing a Word Document Word to ePub – 3: Clean up Filtered HTML Word to ePub – 4: XHTML to ePub with Sigil … [Continue Reading]

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Word to ePub – 1: Introduction

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Make your self-published books available to a wide audience by publishing to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Apple iTunes. Most popular eReaders support the ePub format. Amazon is the exception, but perhaps, not for long. iPad users can read … [Continue Reading]

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spacer Araby Greene is an avid user of Sigil, WordPress, StudioPress, and Dreamweaver. Been making websites since 1996 and eBooks for several years. Love how color, images, and typography tell a story about each website or eBook along with the narrative. Read More…

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