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1. #Kindle emulator for mac how to#
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I don't think I realized the potential of being able to carry around a whole bunch of books in a really light device, until I started thinking about the books that were on my bookshelf that I could put onto my e-reader. The display is really sharp and really crisp. The Kindle seems intuitive to figure out. If you've used it, email me with your experience. Info(prcgen): MOBI File successfully generated! Info(prcgen): The file format version is V6 Info(prcgen): The document identifier is: "Kindle_Users_Guide" Info(prcgen): Final stats - text compressed to (in % of original size): 045.18% Info(prcgen): Building MOBI file, record count: 0000040 Info(prcgen): Found UNICODE range: Latin-1 Supplement Info(prcgen): Found UNICODE range: Basic Latin Info(prcgen): Computing UNICODE ranges used in the book Info(pagemap): No Page map found in the book Info(prcgen): Building table of content URL: /Users/charles/pkg/kindlegen/newsample/KUG.ncx Info(prcgen): Added metadata Start reading "2670" Info(prcgen): Resolving start reading location

#Kindle emulator for mac how to#

Info(prcgen): Added metadata dc:Description "An overview of all the Amazon Kindle features and how to use them. Info(prcgen): Added metadata dc:Subject "Reference" Info(prcgen): Added metadata dc:Publisher "" Info(prcgen): Added metadata dc:Creator "" Info(prcgen): Added metadata dc:Title "Kindle User's Guide" To build the Sample/ e-book, feed the OPF file to kindlegen: All of the files provided in the example are either document pages, supplementary pages, or images, and these are all tied together in the OPF file Guide.opf. If you open toc.html, or if you open Guide.mobi in a Kindle emulator on your computer, you should be able to see how the html files relate to the final e-book produced. If you're interested in going further, the above links should help you out. Fortunately, Guide.opf is well-commented, so it's pretty easy to just copy it and modify it to suit your own needs. They're part of an e-publishing standard.

#Kindle emulator for mac full#

The full specification is detailed here: The key to understanding how it is all pulled together is Guide.opf. The example provided with Kindlegen is contained in the Sample/ directory. The directory Sample/ provides a nice sample ebook, with associated files, which is great - except that none of it is really explained. However, this doesn't cover some of the nuanced details, like how to create tables of contents, or deal with multiple files. gif: images are converted to GIF format (no JPEG in the book) western: force build of Windows-1252 book onlydeps: build only needed dependencies Output file will be created in the same directory as that of input file.

Usage : kindlegen filename.opf/.htm/.html/.epub Running it without arguments gives the kindlegen help output:

#Kindle emulator for mac download#

You can download Kindlegen from Amazon here:

#Kindle emulator for mac trial#

However, the documentation on kindlegen is sparse, so it takes some trial and error. That makes for a really nice integrated approach. The kindlegen approach uses the command-line, which you can combine with the power of text editing. There are a couple of different options for creating a Kindle ebook, I've explored 2 here.įirst, the Sigil/Calibre approach is an easy-to-use combination of GUIs, but as anyone who has dealt with GUIs knows, doing anything non-trivial can be a huge PITA due to lack of scripting, and programs like this are full of bugs.