This is all fine, but designers should keep in mind what devices and apps their books will be read on small smartphone screens might mean that what seems big on iPad or Fire will still seem small on iPhone. Amazon states this can be used when text is large enough so it doesn’t need magnification. You can preview your book across every platform (Kindle reader, Android app, iPhone. Amazon created it, and they designed it to show you exactly how your book will look on Kindle once it’s converted. The new Publishing Guidelines also describe (in a new Chapter 12) a version of the KF8 Fixed-layout format without popups. Kindle Previewer is by far the best way to convert ePub files to MOBI files. The Guidelines address Enhanced Typesetting, but without saying ‘how’ to do apply it. Kindle Publishing Guidelines Also Updated What are your experiences? Crash much, or not at all? Javascript errors? Enhanced typesetting present? Comments on the interface itself? I’d love to hear from anyone who has used the new Previewer. I’ll look into this more as time goes on, and update as needed. So we can’t preview these features as we work. Of course, Enhanced Typesetting seems to be applied within the Amazon ecosystem we can’t add it (or Bookerly) as developers. In fact, it mentions that you should keep version 2.941 on hand to compare Enhanced Typesetting results with non-Enhanced when viewing in Kindle Previewer. One highlight is the list of devices supporting Bookerly and Enhanced Typesetting. It’s worth reading all the FAQs, so scroll through the download page. Here’s the link (note: I had quite a bit of trouble downloading with Chrome on my Mac, but Firefox downloaded without a hitch): Since it’s still in Beta, I won’t replace my existing Kindle Previewer version (2.941). Amazon has released a new version of Kindle Previewer, the tool many developers use to convert EPUBs to MOBIs.
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