Kindle previewer app no access8/11/2023 ![]() Get rid of all the double spacing we’ve always been told to use for editors and agents. Larson’s advice for font size and style and tested it with all font sizes and devices on the Kindle Previewer. Custom lets you freely resize the view, revealing how your book displays on various screen sizes. The Devices Menu shows how your book will read on several devices: Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle for IPhone, Kindle for IPad, and Custom. Larson, in his Kindle tutorial, advises us to use Times New Roman 12 pt.Īddition: The Kindle Previewer’s Font Menu allows you to view your book in six different font sizes. Your font style must change sizes easily on a variety of readers. Both Kindlegen & the Kindle Previewer can be downloaded from Amazon for free.ĥ. The Previewer is used in combination with Kindlegen, a software app that converts html text into the Kindle format. My indents look perfect on the Kindle Previewer. This does not cause problems with the Kindle formatting. WORD automatically indents each new paragraph for me. I use the indent feature in the WORD Style Formatting menu. There you will find detailed instructions for adjusting indent width.Īddition: I do not use tabs in my books. Go to the Advanced Formatting section on Amazon’s DTP guide and search for Paragraphs. NOTE: You can change the width of indents if you wish. ![]() Again, you can do this chapter by chapter, or you can combine all chapters first and then remove the tabs. This will remove all tabs from your document. (Word won’t let you type a tab in there.) Leave the replace box empty click Replace All. Paste the tab you copied into the Find box. To remove all tabs, type one tab at the top of your document, select it and copy it to your clipboard. Otherwise, you will end up with uneven indents in your uploaded book. If you use tabs to create paragraph indents, get rid of them. The Kindle DTP automatically indents each paragraph. number and your last name, such as you would include on hard copy submissions to editors, are also unnecessary. Kindle books are reflowable (viewable with different font sizes) page numbers are unnecessary and would cause problems. Experiment and see what works best for you.ģ. This might cause you some difficulty in removing page numbers and headers, although I’m not sure about that. If you prefer to combine all chapters first, that’s up to you. I work chapter by chapter, making the necessary format changes in each one before pasting it to the end of my combined document. If you store your book as separate documents for each chapter as I do, you need to combine them into one big file. Open one copy of your book file in MS Word. I use a small, handy-to-carry thumb drive. ![]() Make two backups of your book file, one on your computer and one on an external drive.In order to accomplish this, we need to do some prep work. Then we are to “make sure the formatting looks good” before we upload our converted HTML text to the DTP. Since I use MS Word, I will refer to that application.Īccording to Amazon, “DTP converts all text formatting to HTML tags and processes images automatically.” They advise us to convert Word files to HTML within Word. Formats supported by DTP are Zipped HTML (.zip), Word (.doc), Adobe PDF (.pdf), ePub (.epub), Plain Text (.txt) and MobiPocket (.mobi and. First, if you have not already done so, I suggest you read the formatting guidelines provided by Amazon on their Digital Text Platform support pages. Please note the revisions and additions.įormatting your text for Kindle take some time but it doesn’t have to be painful. Well, I’ve learned a few things since originally publishing this post. I warned you I’m a newbie at this and you would be learning along with me. ![]()
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