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Any way to one-time TRANSFER / MOVE Kindle books to a separate account?

Presumably transferring Kindle ebooks to someone else isn't allowed in general, but has anyone found a way (or contacted Amazon Support for them to successfully do this manually, on their side?) to split a Kindle account and/or one-time…
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Reading progress on a Kindle Paperwhite

I like to know how much time I've got left in any book I'm reading on my Kindle. I set it up each time a start reading but it seems to default to location or no reading progress at all. I know it's easy to put it back to show what I want but it's…
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Kindle - How to add downloaded book to kid's account?

The device is Kindle Basic 10th Gen 2019. I have created a child account in Settings/Parental Controls/Amazon Kids and I am trying to add a downloaded book to it. However, the Kindle shows this message even though there are some downloaded books in…
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How to fit the size of a font to fit a PDF fillable box

More of a pdf editing question. A lot of PDF forms restrict you to put 1 letter in each box when filling them Something like this: Has anyone found a way to fill these forms via computer ? Very hard to try to change the font size to fit these
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How to remove extraneous page numbers from ePub TOC

I've created this epub file as an export from an Indesign file, and it's got two problems that I can see immediately: The ToC includes page numbers after the chapter titles, even though I've created a special epub export ToC style in Indesign that…
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Alternate covers for different devices and software

Quite new to writing and editing ebooks and I wondered something. I know in webpages it's possible to produce alternate styling and content based on what the content is being viewed on. So CSS can style something differently for print than for…
Timothy Lee Rayner
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Amazon Kindle Fire won't allow allow links in PDFs to work

On my Kindle Fire I opened the PDF via the silk browser. The PDF contains links. On my iOS device I can click on the links in the PDF. On my Kindle Fire the links don't work.
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Debugging "Processing failed" errors when uploading DRM-free EPUB3 to Google Play Books?

I have a persistent but intermittent problem when uploading some EPUB3 ebooks to Google Play books. Sometimes the upload seems to take a long time, then stops and gives an error message "Processing failed". At other times, the upload seems to take…
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Share kindle books with family on android?

My child has an Android phone. I have created an Amazon household account and created a child profile. I have added books to his profile. My question is how can my child read these books on the Android phone? Do children need their own Amazon/kindle…
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Borrowing audiobooks from different sources

So, how do I go about using an app, website, or other source to borrow audiobooks? I'm fine with paying some money, but Kindle Audible wants up to $20 USD for some titles.
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Can't download ebook from Amazon to my PC

Just making this question in case someone encounter the same problem, I will answer it. So I just bought an ebook for my Kindle in amazon, because some circumstances I have not WIFI available in my house as many other times, therefore I want to…
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Why does EPUBCheck report warnings and errors for ISO8601 date-time string?

While working on a PHP script that builds EPUB 3.0.1 content from external data, I encountered a situation where EPUBCheck complains about a valid ISO8601 date-time string in two places in the container file. The string comes from the following PHP…
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Adding a background image in Calibre

To get a background image in Calibre, I gather that I need to open a book and right click. This will expose a menu. Choosing "Preferences" >> "Styles" opens a GUI to change the background along with a place for more detailed editing of the CSS. …
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Why my EPUB background is black?

I converted .docx file to .htm and convert it to .epub in Calibre. When i view it, the background color is black. How to change it? I tried change the css background color but it doesn't work. Any idea?
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Adding metadata to DjVu

How can I add metadata to a DjVu file? Desired result: $ exiftool sample.djvu | grep -P "^===|Title|Author" Title : Group Theory and Physics Author : Shlomo Sternberg It sounds like XMP metadata…
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