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1. #HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC PDF#
3. #HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC SOFTWARE#

There are two types of images, floating and inline. When you’re adding the table of contents, just select the place where you’d like it to be and go to “Insert” and click on “Table of Contents.” You might need to check or uncheck sections in the “TOC” subsection of the “Document” tab of the Inspector to make the table of contents look right.ĭon’t forget to include the cover as the first page of the document. Instead, go to “Insert” and select “Section Break.” You should use “body” for body, and “author name” for author name.Īt the end of each chapter, don’t hit enter a bunch of times to get to the next page. “Chapter name” should be what you use for all chapter names and only chapter names. You need to use separate styles for distinct pieces. This won’t work if you format each chapter title by hand, changing font, size, spacing, etc. The secret here is to uses the “styles drawer” to format your whole document. I shifted the content to Pages for formatting. Right now, I’m partial to blogging it, but I could also write it in Word, Writeroom, TextEdit, Pages, or any number of text editors or word processors.

#HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC SOFTWARE#

That fell through, but left me with a process that starts with Pages and ends with a free piece of software called Calibre. At the time, he was working with someone who wanted to be able to offer the service professionally as part of a larger business.

#HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC HOW TO#

Last summer, a friend approached me to figure out how to do it reliably. I’d hate to depend on someone’s system only to have it go away. The problem is that the software isn’t open source so it could go away at any time. They’ve clearly done some work in the background to turn WordPress into a very capable ebook creation tool. It outputs an ePub file that worked really well with Amazon’s system. Form My Second Bookįor my second book, I used. Unfortunately, it’s not as straight forward as a website is, so while I’m glad I did it once, I was excited to find another way. If you take an ePub and change the extension to “.zip,” you can unzip it and look at the contents. As it turns out, the ePub format is just a varient of HTML, so what I know about web design translated fairly easily. I spent a couple of months trying to figure out the best and most reliable way to do this on my Mac without buying software I didn’t already have.įor my first book, I did it all in HTML. Without some major work, it’s going to be problematic because Kindle owners can tweak settings like font size and margin, throwing your design into chaos.

Don’t try to create a beautiful print book … for Kindle. Sometimes the failures were catastrophic like JK Rowling’s most recent book. Almost universally, these attempts were met with failure. I’ve seen examples where people tried to create a perfect representation of a paper book for Kindle.

So that begs the questions, “How do you get your draft into a mobi file?” There’s no “save for Kindle” option in either Word or Pages.įirst, consider the medium. I’ve personally used html, mobi, and ePub and have had the best results with mobi.

#HOW TO USE KINDLE ON MAC PDF#

You can upload a Word file, but you’d probably regret it.Īmazon supposedly takes “Word (DOC or DOCX), HTML (ZIP, HTM, or HTML), Mobipocket (MOBI), ePub (EPUB), Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF), Adobe PDF (PDF)” files, but most of these will either have formatting problems or won’t take advantage of Kindle’s ability to change font size. You might think that publishing a book on Kindle is just as easy as taking a MS Word file and uploading it.