Reply To: Magazine InDesign to Kindle (April 2015)

Kathryn, congratulations! Looks like a beautiful book. Well a beautiful title page at least. ;-D

I think Kevin said … somewhere in there … that if you have a “simple” ebook, one with few or no pictures, tables, dropcaps, etc., then you can often just use Previewer to convert before uploading. You’re using KindleGen, which Previewer runs automatically. The benefit to Previewer (besides it being drag and drop) is that not only do you get the KindleGen stamp of approval (or list of things to fix), but you also get the ability to do a fairly close proof on what the converted epub will actually look like.

Since you’re running KindleGen already, I’m curious why you wouldn’t just run Previewer?

And when you run KindleGen, if it reports a problem/s, how do you fix them? I’m curious if you go back to ID, tweak, and rexport; or do you open up the epub and edit it directly.

AM