ngbas.blogg.se - Calibre kindle must do

In Calibre go to Preferences (the icon may be outside the ribbon) -> Add plugins -> write KFX in the text box -> Select "KFX Output" plugin, right click on it, and install.

It should be installed in the default location under the same user account as is being used to run calibre. Next year, Amazon will probably have changed its tools and this info will be outdated. Now here are the instructions to have your left-aligned book in a dozen complicated steps. Just books with Enhanced Typesetting can be left-aligned. This format will allow you to have an ebook with Enhanced Typesetting. You must convert your book to the Amazon proprietary and undocumented format, KFX. That might work, but I've never tried it since I never actually use mobi anymore.I managed to have my left-aligned book inside my Kindle, but I warn you that was way harder than I thought.

The ONLY reason to use mobi these days is because that is all Amazon will let you email to your Kindle.another Amazon who-knows-why quirk.Īfter-thought: But since you have done all that work already, you might try doing a mobi-to-mobi conversion, after editing the metadata. It's an old format and azw3 will give you better appearance and styling opportunities. Then, after the metadata is in the book itself, convert to mobi, if you must.īest of all, just forget mobi. If these are not on your menu, you can find them in Preferences and put them there. (Embed Metadata will do the textual metadata, but not the cover.) So to fix your problem, edit the metadata on a copy in epub or azw3 format, then run Polish (which has various settings and will let you update the cover and all metadata in the book file). So changing metadata on a mobi file is not going to get it into the book (but see the last paragraph below, an after-thought). Mobi will not.you can't edit a mobi file, and it stores its metadata in a different way anyhow. To write it to the book file itself, you have to do one of several things: run the Polish function, or run the Embed Metadata function, or convert the book.Įpub and azw3 books are editable in Calibre, and will respond to Polish and Embed Metadata. As you have discovered, the metadata you change in Calibre only initially affects the external opf file stored in the Calibre library.