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How to determine that kindle doesn't work because of the battery exactly?

My kindle is frozen. I have just a grey screen. Charging for more than 20 hours led to nothing. I tried to reset my Kindle the standard way. Then I made hard reset and even unplugged the battery. After unplugging and plugging the battery I charged…
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How to convert an HTML5 and JQuery featured E-book to an Executable file(exe), having inbuilt browser?

I want to distribute the e-book content, which has some HTML5 and Jquery features, securely by converting the whole HTML package into an EXE. Does any HTML Compiling software exists which has its own inbuilt browser and runs the majority of HTML5…
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Transferring files from one Kindle to another with a forgotten password

My cousin has recently got a new Kindle Fire HDX and she wants to transfer onto it all her books and music from her older Kindle HD (smaller than the newer Kindle, but in all other respects they look the same). Unfortunately she cant remember the…
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Epub with SVG does not work on Kindle app

I am trying to create an epub book. The book includes svg. I have previewed the book in kindle preview and it displays correctly. But when I open it in kindle app on Mac and iPad the display is all garbled. The book opens fine with Books on Mac and…
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Create more than one database for Calibre and load both or switch between them

I'm new to Calibre and just installed it yesterday to manage my books. It seems great for handling books in various formats. I have thousands *pdf books and about 250 printed books that I'm going to add to Calibre regularly. I'd like to have two…
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How to set Calibre Ebook Viewer and Focus on Mac?

Focus on Mac allows to schedule an automatic switch when a particular app is open. However, Calibre Ebook Viewer is not a standalone app on Mac. This app is inside of the parent package contents of Calibre app. I am trying to figure out whether…
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Page dimensions when self-publishing an ebook for Kindle with the print replica option?

I want to create a Kindle ebook where I have full control over how every page is displayed. To do that I want to use the Print Replica option of Kindle Create and feed it a PDF that I create via LaTeX. What are the perfect page settings for the PDF?…
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Is there a way to see words looked up in Wikipedia?

Kindle adds words you have looked up for which it can find a definition to the Vocabulary Builder, but it does not appear to save the words for which it can only find Wikipedia definitions. Is there a way to see all the words you have searched on…
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How to wrap long lines inside 'pre code' environments, for Kobo

I am trying to build an ebook from a programming tutorial (markdown): it contains many code blocks with comments; the comment lines are too long for the width of my Kobo H2O v2 reader, so I can't read the end... I tried adding a CSS style for…
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KDP question, same book different ISBN

I'm planning to publish my books to lulu but the problem is ISBN. I know that I can't use the same Isbn, so my question is: can I publish the same book and same title to other book stores with a different ISBN? Have you any direct experience?
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How can I "name" PDF pages?

I'm trying to export a PDF of a scanned book. Regardless of whether I try to use GIMP or LibreOffice Draw, I can't seem to name any of the cover pages! I want to have the page numbers on the exported PDF match the page numbers in the lower-right…
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Kindle ebook for free distribution: azw3 or mobi?

I'm working on a project of a website where we'll give ebooks for free (and of course without drm). Apart from epub, we'd like to give also a kindle-compatible format. And here I'm a bit confused: on one side, Amazon doesn't support anymore mobi…
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How to hide toc.xhtml in epub 2

I have an epub 3 that I want to be backwards compatible for older e-readers that expect an epub 2. My table of contents is rendered in a toc.xhtml, as expected by an epub 3. In addition, I have an .ncx file listing the table of contents as expected…
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Any Ebook editor that allows easy media overlay?

I am trying to create an ebook with a media overlay (read aloud feature). Once created, I would like to use the ebook to play audio and highlight the text in the book at the appropriate time in the audio. I understand that SMIL has to be used and…
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Is there a way to make third party book (non-amazon) covers appear as screensavers on Kindle?

So recently Amazon has introduced this feature which shows the cover of what you are currently reading on the lock screen of your Kindle reader (at least for Kindle Paperwhite 4 as far as I know). As I have both Amazon and third party books on my…
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