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What is the best tool for Smashwords submission?
I am planning to write couple of free ebooks for the benefit of the community. Can anyone please suggest me a good tool for smashwords compatibility?
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Cannot highlight text on my Kindle Paperwhite using a sample ebook
I have a sample ebook from Amazon on my Kindle Paperwhite but I cannot highlight its text due to the option being grayed out. Is there a way to fix this?
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How or what coding format do I use?
I'm wanting to change a book called Being and Nothingness by Paul Satre from pdf to something a phone app called UB reader will recognise, I am using calibre-ebook.com, but don't know which format to use, so far it's nothing but a mess. Or should I…
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Where are books downloaded from Amazon Kindle app stored in Android?
I download a book from Amazon Kindle app to my Android 4.4.2 phone (Kyocera Hydro Icon), and would like to transfer it to my laptop. Where is it stored in my phone?
Is it possible to find it out using some download history of Android?
Is it possible…
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Is it possible for a Book to have multiple ISSN?
It is obvious that a serial may be published in multiple books. Thus a single ISSN could have multiple ISBN releases.
How about the otherway, Is it possible for a book, to be published under multiple Serial? Thus that single ISBN belongs to multiple…
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What prospect is there for foreign language look-up in Kindle for PC?
Kindle for PC is currently ineligible for delivery of most dictionaries on the "Manage Your Content and Devices" page, and so cannot use them for word look-up.
Is this situation likely to change soon? Or is there some deep reason for it, which is…
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Can I use a service like Scribd/Oyster with the Kindle eReader?
I'm not talking about Kindle fire. The $79 one.
It doesn't have to directly support it.
My thinking is:
If Kindle support the epub format
Scribd offers epub
There's software out there like Calibre that can convert between formats
I should be…
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How to get book list from amazon clouddrive?
I am sure that this is an obvious question. And that was already asked. But I can not find it. So first I apologize in advance for possible duplicate.
I have on amazon.com/clouddrive a lot of books. Purchased outside the Amazon (I am polish…
Tomek Kobyliński
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The mimetype file has an extra field of length n. The use of the extra field feature of the ZIP format is not permitted for the mimetype file
I am using the C# library DotNetZip (Ionic.Zip and Ionic.Zlib) to generate an ebook from a directory. Directory looks like this:
BookName
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|___content/
| images/
| css/
| (html pages, .ops, .ncx)
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|___META-INF/
| …
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How to find complete ebook details just from its ISBN?
I know the title and the ISBN number of an ebook, but I do not know its exact edition.
Is there any official/unofficial site which keeps record of all the information corresponding to a particular ISBN?
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Which ePub readers are available for Windows?
On my Android devices I use Aldiko and Moon Reader Pro, depending on my mood.
On Windows, however, I am still stuck with FBReader and the reader bundled with Calibre, and I don't like very much both of them. (Adobe Digital Edition is a heavy…
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Some Kindle books on my pc do not appear on my Android
I started with Kindle for PC - recently I have added an Android tablet.
Most books have synced OK between the two devices.
But 3 books on my PC - Pride and Prejudice, Aesop's Fables, and Treasure Island - appear ONLY on the PC. I have tries…
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How to preserve the hyperlinks in a PDF file
I'm formatting my mathematical book into an ebook. To keep all mathematical symbols intact, I saved it as a .PDF. Is there any software that can preserve both mathematical symbols and the hyperlink for chapters in the final .MOBI file?
As a side…
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References in e-books and printed books: Common style for both? If so, which one fits both media?
Preface
There are many styles to handle references to other books (or websites) in printed media. The style preference also seems to differ between e.g. science and humanities.
In e-books references can be styled in the same way as in printed books,…
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Choosing the right dimensions for ePub
I am preparing book in Indesign for an eventual ePub export. My page dimensions are:
Width 768 px
Height 1024 px
Orientation portrait
Margins 0 px (since iBooks provides its own margins by default)
I added a cover image with the dimensions 800 px by…
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