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Do I need an Amazon account to use a Kindle?
I am looking to buy a Kindle Paperwhite (7th gen). Do I need an Amazon account for it to work? I just want to put books on it from my PC. I cannot create an Amazon Account because I have no credit card, so will my Kindle register without it?
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Efficient way to colour code text?
For the purposes of learning Chinese, I want to write every character in a short novel in a colour that corresponds to its tone (pronunciation thing). The book is an epub, and I've been doing the html inside it like this:
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How to perfectly convert and read malayalam ebooks on kindle?
I've heard that people read malayalam (മലയാളം) ebooks on kindle. Not the images placed in a PDF file. The file which we can read like normal ebook format (controlling the fontsize mainly).
I tried installing a few fonts. They failed too. Is there a…
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Known Issues with Amazon's Converter
What are the known issues with converting various document types to ebooks with Kindle's online or offline converters? I am not asking for a technical run-down of all of the things that could go wrong with a file; I'm asking for a list of the top…
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EPUB Page number values
According to the epub spec a page number can be defined as:
… 23 …
And in the page-list:
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Why can't I remove books from my device?
I used to be able to remove books from my Sony PRS-T1 reader using Calibre (either one by one or en masse). I am running a fully updated version of Windows 7, and I have the latest version of Calibre (1.20), and tried today to remove some books…
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Is it possible to transfer my Wattpad books to my Kindle?
Kindle model:
6" Glare-Free Touchscreen Display, Wi-Fi
Amazon Link
I can also live with a workaround for downloading them locally as a pdf and sending them through send-to-kindle.
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How do you make paragraphs break in iBooks or Nook?
I have just finished the long and arduous task of typesetting a book using quarkXpress2015. While everything is beautiful on-screen and as a PDF, things get ugly when exporting as ePub for ebooks. I've been at it for a few days, going between quark…
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How to make the Contents display in the GO TO window?
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how to properly declare metadata in epub3
couple questions about metadata in epub3:
is the namespaced opf attribute (opf:file-as="", for example) deprecated?
if so, does anyone know why?
given that it this format is deprecated, what is the correct format for including attributes in the opf…
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What is the most effective way to manage an overheated device?
I've noticed that my Kindle Fire (fittingly, maybe) feels very hot when I am using it sometimes. Obviously, common sense would dictate that picking the device up off of the surface it's sitting on is an effective way to have air flow over the…
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Kindle Paperwhite Custom Fonts
I am getting really bored with the old kindle fonts, I'd really like to add some new ones. Is it possible? (I have a 6th generation Kindle Paperwhite)
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Readers that support EPUB 3 page numbers
We are adding page numbers to our epubs according to the spec defined here.
We would like to test this functionality though, are there any readers that support page numbers?
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How to call a plugin from command line?
How to, lets say, hyphen an ebook with Hyphenate This! plugin from command line?
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How can you delete the books from 'Cloud' in Kindle PaperWhite?
I'm using this Google Chrome Push to Kindle extension for reading articles on the kindle. In short it converts an article and sends it to your device.
It's very convenient, but I've collected a lot of article in my Kindle 'Cloud' and I can't find a…
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