![]() ![]() This is what the book should look like in most Kindle devices (this is the Kindle Desktop app):Īnd it looks great in Amazon’s Kindle Previewer app for the various devices. But mainly, indents don’t always work nor do embedded fonts. If I’d have started from scratch and hand coded everything, I might have been able to do better. Part of the problem (maybe the whole problem) is that I was in a hurry so I started with Calibre for conversion and then tweaked it in Sigil, which results in messy code. ![]() Here’s how it looks on the Kindle Cloud reader.Īnd the ebook is pretty bad too – here it is in Adobe Digital Editions. You may not think it looks that bad, but a lot of the headers are centered or right aligned, some text is normal or bolded, some text is larger than others… it’s really messy. ![]() It also looks like the Table of Contents isn’t working. Of course now that it’s up on Kindle for real, it looks like crap in the “Look Inside.” I finally got all the headers and blockquotes to look pretty good. I spent 10 hours yesterday re-coding the ebook files for my new book, Write, Format, Publish Promote. Today however I’ve proved myself wrong (or right, depending on whether you’re following my words or my actions). I ignore my own advice, because for me, style and design are as important as content. Because it’s unlikely to look good on all different platforms and ebook readers.īut that’s so boring. In my books and with my clients, I routinely stress to keep ebooks very simple. ![]()
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