![]() This let me hand-tweak the files directly in vim, then add them back to the ePub using zip -f (freshen). Īt one point I unzipped the ePub into separate XHTML files. Unfortunately, Apple Books requires your book to pass epubcheck anyway, with no errors or warnings. The developer of Calibre considers epubcheck broken, which it is, and wrong about the ePub specification, which it is. There’s an online version, but I just installed the Java. If you’ve lived your life wrong enough that you’re hand-editing ePub XHTML, you should probably install epubcheck. The good news is that Calibre has a pretty good XHTML editor - right-click on book title, “Edit book”. Since this is on computers, there are some gotchas - specifically, that ePub is an absolute shower of a format, and you will be editing XHTML by hand if you want to get onto Apple Books and the other minor ebook stores. If you don’t understand any of the technical detail here, don’t worry about it - there must surely be better ways than this. (Comments suggesting using L AT EX instead will get you slapped over the Internet.) ![]() There’s almost certainly bits I could have done better some other way, and a lot of bits where I got way too deep into technical twiddling just because I could. This post is a record of what I actually did to make the ePub for Libra Shrugged. Its format converters are robust and battle-hardened. Ĭalibre is also the most common ePub generator. It comes with a nice ebook reader too, which I use all the time. Right now the plugin only works for converting ePub to KFX, but if you have another format all you have to do is convert it to ePub first.Calibre is an ebook management application. Just make sure to select KFX as the output format from the conversion menu. After the KFX Convert plugin is installed, all you have to do is add ebooks to Calibre and then convert them. If you’re having trouble installing it, detailed installation directions can be found here on this Introduction to plugins article.Ĥ. Make sure to apply the changes and then restart Calibre. To install it, open Calibre then go to Preferences > Plugins and choose to Load plugin from file and select the KFX Output zip file. Download the zip file from the end of the first post at MobileRead. Install Calibre eBook Management Software.ģ. One got an error message and wouldn’t convert but the second book worked and the enhanced typesetting looks perfect on my Kindle Paperwhite 3. The plugin is still in its beta testing phase but you can manually install it into Calibre and it does indeed work, but some errors are possible. So jhowel over at MobileRead figured out how to create a plugin for Calibre that can repackage the data created by KP3 into a usable KFX file. The problem with Kindle Previewer 3 is that it doesn’t actually create KFX-formatted books it just lets you preview them. ![]() Then last month Amazon released the Kindle Previewer 3, which lets authors and publishers convert and preview their books to see how they will look when using the new format and layout settings. Up until recently there’s been no way to create or convert ebooks into KFX format the only way to get them was to download them to a Kindle device or app that supports KFX format.
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