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Two Kindles synced to same account - reading location being shared, but not Kindle content?

I have two Kindles (both 10th Generation Paperwhite) and one Amazon account. Both Kindles are registered to the one Amazon account and I have enabled Whispersync in my Amazon settings. However, if I download a sample from amazon.co.uk to one…
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What are the consequences of changing my Kindle's region?

I used to live in the US, but now I live in Germany. I own a lot of books on the US Amazon site. I'd like to switch my Kindle to Germany so I can purchase books in German...but if I do, what happens to my US books? The US site says this: About…
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ePub 3 option for age restriction metadata?

I'm looking for the equivalent of the RTA header for websites but for ePub - something I can put in the metadata section to label the ePub as intended for an adult audience and not suitable for children. Does such a standard opt-in content rating…
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How to move a word to the next line in Sigil

I know how to move words on the same line, but I don't know how to move them to the next line in the code view. When I move the word over on the same line, I increase the left: numbers. I want to move the word "A" to the next line to correct an…
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Is there any app available for reading the books downloaded in PDF format?

I like to listen to audiobooks a lot. Is there application which can read the downloaded books directly? There are various app but you have to manually copy the paragraphs and then it reads for you. It would be good to have app which can complete…
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PDF Compressor online / software

I have a very large ebooks; I would like to reduce their sizes while maintaining the highest possible quality. Is there a best PDF compressor software or online website that I can upload my private ebooks to? Note: I'm looking for a safe website…
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Is there an equivalent of TeX's \hfill in CSS?

Subject says it all. I know that I can use float:left and float:right, but this does not work if the combined lenght of texts is more than a line. I would like to have some text anchored to the left and some other text anchored to the right, but I…
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Kindle Touch 4th Generation does not render published font correctly

I am using Calibre to create an ebook in Urdu language. The language is written from right to left. The whole book is in Unicode and uses UTF-8 encoding. If I open the book in TextEdit on Mac. Mac own fonts such as Helvetica shows the book like…
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iRiver Story stopped reading files

I have no idea where to find an answer to this question, so i'll just throw it here hoping i'm not making anyone mad. I've had an iRiver Story e-book reader for some time now; i think i got it as a present when it first appeared on the market and…
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Kindle's sleep mode: keeping last page on screen

Since it is E-ink, is there a way to keep the last page read on screen instead of screensaver/ad? (And if not, why not? it is a killer feature...)
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Can an ebook on essays sell good on amazon/kindle?

I am a newbie writer, and I am thinking of writing an ebook on collection of essays, and i need to know whether such genre sell good on amazon/kindle?
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No progress report display

The progress report display has disappeared from my Kindle Paperwhite screen. I have tried tapping on the bottom left corner of the screen, as suggested in other posts, but it just turns the page. Is there any other way of re-starting the progress…
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what native fonts are there on a kindle?

I would like to publish an ebook which uses different fonts, but I don't want neither to embed them in the .mobi file nor have the user download them. I am fairly sure that somewhere there should be a list of native fonts which may be used without…
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How can I fix this kindle?

I tried to turn on my kindle DX and I found it in this state: The screen was normal prior to that with no anomalies.The external screen is fine with no cracks or scratches. What I remember one day before is that I dropped my keyboard on the…
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How to get number of locations of a Kindle ebook programatically?

I've been googling around for some time but couldn't find absolutely any clue. I have an ebook file in mobi format and would like get the number of locations of this ebook. I want to do it programatically so I could open a bunch of files and get…
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