![]() With the new previewer, those free samples will be available on the Web as well, with the option to buy the Kindle edition. But what about the plain old Web?Īmazon is inching in that direction with a soon-to-be-released “Kindle Previewer for HTML5.” When you buy a Kindle device or download the software, you can sample a free chapter for any book in the Kindle store. He already has the various flavors of the Kindle e-reader, as well as an iPhone app, an even better iPad app, a Blackberry app, a new Android app, and desktop readers for the Mac and PC. “Buy once, read everywhere,” is his motto. There are a few other things too like a Kindle image converter and HTML cleaner.Jeff Bezos wants Kindle books to become ubiquitous and the standard in digital reading. Nice way to extract the text of a book without the formatting. Not relevant to the typesetting, but inside the app bundle for the Mac version of Kindle Previewer is a nifty little tool called MobiContentDumper that extracts mobi file contents to a JSON file complete with Kindle positions info. No surprise there since Textbook Creator isn’t designed for reflowable books. I tried rearranging the files to match KTC’s folder structure and that didn’t work either. On a lark I tried opening the kcb with Kindle Textbook Creator and got an error. In terms of output, you get a regular mobi, and if your book is given the Enhanced Typesetting stamp of approval, you can also find (hidden away in a temp system folder) the enhanced version as a kcb and kdf file plus a few resources, similar to the pre-compiled output of Kindle Textbook Creator. I’ll have to go through and re-add portions one bit at a time to see what styling trips the Not Supported flag. If I remove all styling from my source epubs, Enhanced Typesetting becomes available. So far none of the files I’ve tried have been compatible with Enhanced Typesetting, but I haven’t narrowed down why.
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