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How do I copy and paste text from Windows 8 Kindle app book to Microsoft Word
I need to open up my Windows 8 Kindle app and while reading a book, I want to cut and paste certain passages to a Word document. I did this before a while back but can't seem to do it again (or remember how I did it before). I used the dual screen…
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How can I set my Kindle Paperwhite to ignore font color settings?
I bought an e-book from a 3rd party bookstore which looks really bad on my Kindle Paperwhite. I've investigated the book and it seems to me that the basic font color is defined to be grey instead of black.
p { ....; color: #231f20 }
Is there a way…
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Are there any open e-book file formats that support statistics gathering?
Are there any open e-book file formats which support gathering of anonymous statistics (e.g. how many times an e-book has been opened) by the content creator?
By "support", include both the support in the file format itself, as well as support in at…
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Are there ways to easily convert chapter-split books from popular fan-fiction sites into single e-book?
Are there ways to easily convert chapter-split books from popular fan-fiction sites into single e-book?
Of course, one can either manually download every one of 50+ chapters of a large fic by hand and copy/paste them together, or write some Perl…
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Internet access on the 3G Amazon Kindles?
I had a 3G Kindle back in the day (2 years ago), and one of my favourite features as a traveller was the whispernet experimental web browser. It was slow as a dog, but hey, free internet in most countries - the only country I visited that year…
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How to change the images displayed when my Kindle Touch is put to sleep?
Whenever I press the power button on my Kindle Touch, an image is displayed on the e-ink screen. The images depict various typographical tools and elements (like a typewriter, etc.).
However, it would be nice to use my own images in their place. Is…
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Is there online eBook authoring tool which can produce ePub and PDF formats?
I would prefer an online tool so that I am not tied to a particular computer for adding content. Additionally I would expect an online collaboration tool ( distribute chapters to authors and editors) to collaborate with other authors and editors.…
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Big screen dimensions or high DPI for vision impaired users?
I'ld like to get my dad an ebook reader for Christmas. Yet, he is a bit vision impaired which means that he only has a good reading experience with bigger and sharper/clearer/more-acurate font rendering.
To be sure the display renders the fonts as…
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How do I permanently change the font size in HAN Software's ePub Reader?
I know I can easily zoom in or zoom out in HAN Software's ePub Reader but if I do this, whenever I re-open my ePub, I have to zoom in again.
Is there a way I can set a static font size for ePub Reader?
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I can't find the mobi format ebooks I copied from my computer to my kindle via usb, what should I do?
Transferring ebooks in mobi file to my kindle used to be hassle free. I just drag it to the "documents" folder and voilà! They're there.
What happened yesterday was different. I tried to move mobi ebooks to my kindle. The books were transferred…
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Is there any way to address encoding errors in purchased ebooks
I have found a number of ebooks that I have purchased have some glitches in the encoding. Most often I notice that the pages are mapped incorrectly. For instance, in one case I advance to the next page from 121 and it returns me to 117. In another…
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Setting up margins in ePUB and Kindle ebooks and @page rule
I am currently creating an ePUB3 file for converting it to Kindle format, and for it be compatible to other ereading devices that support epub.
I noticed a directive in the css file of one of the DRM-free epub books that I am using to help me…
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Online ebooks management system that can be hosted on a server
Can you please suggest me an online book management system in PHP and MySQL, which I can host in my own Linux server? Preferably open source.
I do not intend to upload or store the ebooks but only the metadata. I want to store books details (as…
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How can I toggle text reliably across all ereaders in an epub file?
I'm trying to make a multilingual ebook where I have two different translations of the same story. I'm trying to get it so that you can toggle the language by clicking on individual paragraphs. I asked a similar question on Stackoverflow a while ago…
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Is there a way to publish an eBook, distribute it and the push updates to the distributed eBooks?
If I publish an eBook, distribute it and later I want to edit or add to the information, is there is a way to push those updates to the already distributed copies of the eBook?
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